"...which found no evidence of criminal record for them and instead, a certain pattern that discriminates by default against Venezuelans with tattoos allegedly allegorical to the gang."
Certainly with as extensive a legal edifice as modern states generally, and the USA specifically, have erected, there can be little doubt than any human being in the jurisdiction must be a law breaker of some kind. In the 1990s the GAO (government accounting office) published a statement that ~90% of Americans were guilty of a felony under the voluminous laws it's legislature had passed and were signed by the executive into effect, I recall. These decades later, with the eager activity of that hive of villainy continually buzzing since, there can be no one that is not a felon wandering the streets of America and simply hasn't been caught, or such laws enforced.
Oppressive governments often do this to enable arbitrary law enforcement to be selectively applied to whomever TPTB seek to silence and remove from their demesne. Despite the Declaration of Independence bemoaning such as tyranny, it is easy enough to practice that it is a common thing.
Because of this the claim of the EFE that no criminal record for those unfortunates is extant actually means they're criminals that just haven't been previously caught. Every American is, and each of them is sure no one is any better than them. When gang tattoos are alleged, almost everyone will immediately believe they are just clever enough not to have got caught in some desperate criminal enterprise yet. Clearly, absent any familiarity with TdA tattoos, and without visuals of the captives, I can make no judgment of them on that basis, but surely the same bias would pertain in Cuba were the same story published about captives of the Cuban government.
All we know is what we are told about such things.
Certainly with as extensive a legal edifice as modern states generally, and the USA specifically, have erected, there can be little doubt than any human being in the jurisdiction must be a law breaker of some kind. In the 1990s the GAO (government accounting office) published a statement that ~90% of Americans were guilty of a felony under the voluminous laws it's legislature had passed and were signed by the executive into effect, I recall. These decades later, with the eager activity of that hive of villainy continually buzzing since, there can be no one that is not a felon wandering the streets of America and simply hasn't been caught, or such laws enforced.
Oppressive governments often do this to enable arbitrary law enforcement to be selectively applied to whomever TPTB seek to silence and remove from their demesne. Despite the Declaration of Independence bemoaning such as tyranny, it is easy enough to practice that it is a common thing.
Because of this the claim of the EFE that no criminal record for those unfortunates is extant actually means they're criminals that just haven't been previously caught. Every American is, and each of them is sure no one is any better than them. When gang tattoos are alleged, almost everyone will immediately believe they are just clever enough not to have got caught in some desperate criminal enterprise yet. Clearly, absent any familiarity with TdA tattoos, and without visuals of the captives, I can make no judgment of them on that basis, but surely the same bias would pertain in Cuba were the same story published about captives of the Cuban government.
All we know is what we are told about such things.
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