Soccer coach Jerce Reyes Barrios, who was deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison based, he says, largely on his soccer tattoo ...

A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country's infamous prisons recounts ...

Among the deported men with no apparent criminal record was Jerce Reyes Barrios, a 35-year-old Venezuelan and former professional soccer player who had sought asylum in the U.S. after he was ...

Reyes Barrios presented himself on the day of his appointment, but was taken into custody, Tobin said. More: Trump shipped them to El Salvador. Their families say their only crime was a tattoo.

“Jerce Reyes Barrios was not only in the United States illegally, but he has tattoos that are consistent with those indicating TdA gang membership,” a senior DHS official told CNN via email.

“Jerce Reyes Barrios was not only in the United States illegally, but he has tattoos that are consistent with those indicating TdA gang membership," she said in a statement.

“Jerce Reyes Barrios was not only in the United States illegally, but he has tattoos that are consistent with those indicating TdA gang membership,” a senior DHS official told CNN via email.