Last Friday, January 17, the Venezuelan Frizgeralth Cornejo had his appointment through CBP One, the mobile application developed by the United States Customs and Border Protection Office; However, the US authorities informed him that they would investigate his tattoos and left him stopped at the border of Texas.
Cornejo does not have criminal record In Venezuela or in the United States, a country that he never managed to enter. Because, after staying two months detained by the immigration and customs control service (ICEfor its acronym in English), it became one of the 238 Venezuelans expelled to the megacárcel of El Salvador.
Based on the Foreign enemies lawa legal norm created in 1798, more than 227 years agothe US president Donald Trump He made the decision to expel dozens from alleged members of the Venezuelan Megabanda Aragua train and of the international terrorist organization Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).
However, according to Cornejo’s tattoo artist Pedro Freites, its national connational to the terrorism confinement center (CECOT), located in Tecoluca, El Salvador, “has no link with the most powerful criminal organization in Venezuela and its tattoos have nothing to do with those criminal structures.”
Venezuelan tattoo artist defends his innocence
“I am the frizgeralth cornejo tattoo artist, one of the Venezuelans who is currently imprisoned in El Salvador. After seeing the news and seeing it in the unfair situation in which he is due to the tattoos that I made, I really felt devastated And enough guilty”Said Pedro Freites during an interview with the Univisión channel.
“At the time, we choose all those tattoos only so that They will combine Among them, but everything got out of control when they began to accuse him of belonging to the Aragua train, ”Freites added, after mentioning that he has tattooed” a large part of the body “to Cornejo, whom he considers a good friend and innocent of these crimes.
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“I tattooed one pink in the neck, a cherub With a flower in the abdomen, a angel on her mother’s chest and the birthday date on her shoulder. He also has some legs on his legs, but those designs are not mine, we take them out of the Internet and liked, ”added the Venezuelan tattoo artist, in defense of the innocence of the deporte.
“They are tattoos without much background; perhaps most of us made them only for fashion. None has an affinity with the Aragua train band. In my career I have tattoo suspicious.
According to the US Public Security Department, Tattoos with Roses, Crowns and Watches “are commonly related to the Aragua Train”; However, according to the Venezuelan tattoo artist, these designs are very popular in Latin America And anyone can practically have them, without the need for them to be criminals.
“US authorities should make a investigation Much more thoroughly of the people who deport, ”concluded Pedro Freites, who held until the end that neither his designs, nor their tattoos, nor Frizgeralth Cornejo have any relationship with the criminal band of Aragua Train, so it should not be in that Salvadoran jail.