Tattoos, flyers and deleted photos: The limited evidence the Trump administration is using to try to deport migrants

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Tattoos, flyers and deleted photos: The limited evidence the Trump administration is using to try to deport migrants

By Eric Levenson, CNN
8 minute read
Updated 11:25 AM EDT, Tue March 25, 2025

(CNN) — Tattoos. Pro-Hamas flyers. Deleted photos.

These are just a few of the pieces of evidence that the Trump administration has cited in its legal efforts to detain and deport migrants from the United States in high-profile actions the past few weeks.

The evidence has been cited in efforts to send over 200 Venezuelan men to prison in El Salvador for alleged gang membership, to detain a pro-Palestinian activist and green card holder without charging him with any crime, and to deport a doctor with a visa to Lebanon.

People in immigration court already face a lower standard of due process in proceedings, but the Trump administration’s moves reflect a stark deterioration of migrant civil liberties even further, immigration attorneys said.

“In this instance under the Trump administration, what we’re seeing is yes, allegations using flimsy evidence paired with no meaningful opportunity to refute that evidence in any kind of proceeding before any kind of decision-maker,” said Nayna Gupta, policy director of the American Immigration Council, a pro-immigration non-profit group. “That’s really what makes this different.”

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