Imagine that!
According to this LA Times story, Jean Pierre Arteaga, a gang member facing deportation to his native El Salvador following several felony convictions here argued that he should be granted permanent refugee staus here in our country and be allowed to continue gang-banging without fear of deportation because his gang tattoos that he chose to adorn himself with would mark him and put him at risk from rival gang members back in his own country.
But the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said that he had provided no proof of this and denied his claim, putting Arteaga back on the pathway to his rightful home...El Salvador. Kudos to the court that usually gets it wrong for actually coming down on the right side of this issue, even if they did base their decision on a lack of proof instead of the sheer stupidity of the gang punk's claim. Had the court ruled in his favor and said that gang tattoos could be grounds for preventing deportation of non-citizen gang members, every illegal alien that ever wanted to stay in America would just have to scrawl some gang symbols on their arm and they'd be immune from ever being sent home. Can't you just picture all those people running around with MS-13 logos...even those people illegally here from China, India and Europe?
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