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Imagine being forced to leave everything behind, your home, your family, your dreams, because US sanctions have devastated your country’s economy, making day-to-day living increasingly unbearable. You endure a treacherous journey, risking everything for a chance at stability and to help your family back home, only to be met with handcuffs and an indefinite sentence in one of the world’s most infamous prisons.

This is the fate of many migrants, including Venezuelans, fleeing an economic war waged by US policies. One of President Trump’s first actions was to sign an executive order expanding the Migrant Operations Center at Guantanamo Bay to detain up to 30,000 migrants, labeling them as “criminal illegal aliens.” Following mounting legal challenges and international scrutiny, the US government has now deported 177 Venezuelan migrants who were detained at the naval base.

According to US officials, 126 of them had criminal charges or convictions, and 80 were accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang. Fifty-one had no criminal records. Human rights advocates raised concerns about the lack of transparency in the US classification of detainees, especially given the cases where migrants were detained at Guantanamo based on nothing more than their tattoos.

Yes, the US government is using tattoos, sometimes nothing more than a name, a........

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