Soccer coach Jerce Reyes Barrios, who was deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison based, he says, largely on his soccer tattoo, tells ABC News he's grateful to be free.

A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country's infamous prisons recounts ...

Among the deported men with no apparent criminal record was Jerce Reyes Barrios, a 35-year-old Venezuelan and former professional soccer player who had sought asylum in the U.S. after he was ...

Jerce Reyes Barrios was in the US as a professional soccer player and refugee of Venezuelan’s communist regime, immigration attorney Linette Tobin said in a recent court filing.

“Jerce Reyes Barrios was not only in the United States illegally, but he has tattoos that are consistent with those indicating TdA gang membership,” a senior DHS official told CNN via email. “His own ...

However, he ended up being taken into custody. Venezuelan soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, has been deported from the U.S. to El Salvador after agents mistook his tattoo for a gang symbol ...

Agents who detained Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, last September said his tattoo was "proof of gang membership," his attorney Linette Tobin wrote in a sworn statement this week.

“Jerce Reyes Barrios was not only in the United States illegally, but he has tattoos that are consistent with those indicating TdA gang membership,” a senior DHS official told CNN via email.

“Jerce Reyes Barrios was not only in the United States illegally, but he has tattoos that are consistent with those indicating TdA gang membership,” a senior DHS official told CNN via email.