An example of a tattoo that the Trump administration says identifies the user as a member of a violent Venezuelan gang apparently was expelled from a random British man who has no affiliation of gangs.

“I am just an average medium -age man from Derbyshire,” Pete Belton told the BBC after the departure linked a clock tattoo in Belton’s elbow with it in a national security training manual.

Instead of meaning his predilection for violence, Belton, 44, said that the tattoo commemorates the birth of his daughter, with the hands of the hour and the minute pointing at the time of her birth.

The same image also appeared in a PowerPoint presentation prepared by the Texas Public Security Department in September 2024:

A slide from a Texas PowerPoint Public Security Department that aims to show Aragua's train identifiers includes a British random clock tattoo.
A slide from a Texas PowerPoint Public Security Department that aims to show Aragua’s train identifiers includes a British random clock tattoo.

Texas Public Security Department

Other examples provided in the document include tattoos of the iconic silhouette of Michael Jordan, trains, stars and crowns.

Last month, the Trump administration sent a professional football player named Jerce Reyes Barrios to a brutal prison in El Salvador allegedly based on a crown tattoo. Barrios’s lawyer said that tattoo is simply a tribute to the Real Madrid football club, which is strongly leaning in the images of the crown.

Immigration and compliance officers of the United States have received instructions to identify a Aragua train members using a points -based system, a “alien enemy validation guide” obtained by ACLU.

The tattoos, like the above, that supposedly “denote loyalty” to ADD, tell 4 points. Other points based on symbolism can be assigned to wear suspicious clothes (4 points), wear suspicious hand signs (2 points) or publish ADD symbols on social networks (2 points).

Any person who scores 8 points or more is automatically considered a member of the train from Aragua, while immigrants who obtain 6 or 7 points “can be validated” as members, but only after a conversation with the officer’s supervisor.

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Belton insists that he is not a Venezuelan gangster. But he told the BBC that, however, he is rethinking a family vacation planned to Miami this fall, fearing that he could become “all -inclusive vacations to Guantanamo.”

How his elbow ended in a training manual to identify criminals in a completely different part of the world is still clear. The National Security Department did not immediately respond to a request for comments.