Union of Egoists<p>"Gang designations can become sweep up wide swaths of the population; at one point, roughly half of all Black men in Los Angeles between the ages of 21 to 24 years old were listed on a gang database, according to a report published in the Asian Pacific American Law Journal.</p><p>For people like Abrego Garcia, being listed as having a gang affiliation — no matter how thin the justification — can have serious immigration consequences. Yet in some cases, people might not even be aware that they’re on a gang database. “It’s really common for police when they can’t charge someone with a crime or find something to get them on to slap this very easy designation on them,” Muñiz said, “and then eventually, it will make its way up to ICE, and ICE will use that in court to argue for things like expedited deportation or compulsory detention.”</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/18/trump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-ms13-gang-database/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/04/18/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-ms13-gang-database/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bulls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bulls</span></a></p>