Fox News host downplays prospect of someone being wrongly sent to El Salvador megaprison: “A lot of people ... get arrested for things that they didn't do, get falsely accused, falsely convicted”
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From the March 31, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five
JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): And I'm going to continue, because getting an assurance from the El Salvadorian government that they're not going to torture anyone who they haven't confirmed is a gang member is not the same as not putting these people on the flight in the first place. And there was an interesting back and forth with Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, and Andrew Feinberg earlier this afternoon because, Andrew Feinberg was trying to talk to her about this new guidance that shows that you need eight points. And there are a bunch of, different ways that you can qualify for points to prove that you are a TdA member. And you can get eight points alone for a tattoo that they say is a gang tattoo.
And we now know of two separate cases of people who have tattoos that met that criteria, but it was just for one of them, a crown that said “mom" above it, and another one, another crown tattoo. So that's obviously something they're looking for, but it turns out that that guy had a crown tattoo because he got matching tattoos with his ex-girlfriend, and they had done that. So those people have been sent to this El Salvadorian prison.
GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): The lesson: Do not get matching tattoos with your girlfriend.
Parents everywhere are taking notes.
TARLOV: I agree. I am not very pro-ink. But you can't take away people's due process like that. And I, again, I don't trust the El Salvadorian government to be making sure that they're not torturing people, that they're vetting them properly. They need to be vetted on this side.
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TARLOV: Time magazine was there when the gay barber from Venezuela who had a crown tattoo that said “mom" was being processed coming into the El Salvador in — oh, am I boring you again? I'm sorry.
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): No. But you've been talking about this gay barber from El Salvador with some stupid tattoo for weeks. Weeks, Jessica.
GUTFELD: Yeah. Come on.
WATTERS: It's just a gay barber.
GUTFELD: He's not into you.
WATTERS: He's an innocent guy who got swept up in a deportation, and hopefully we get it figured out and straightened out. But a lot of people in this country, Jessica, get arrested for things that they didn't do, get falsely accused, falsely convicted.
TARLOV: I'm also against racial profiling.
WATTERS: That doesn't mean — that doesn't mean you just stop arresting people.
TARLOV: I didn't say that. I said just give people their due process.
WATTERS: That doesn't mean you stop arresting criminals because one guy was arrested who was innocent. It just means you just try to do it better the next time. And I have nothing against the gay barbers. Gay barbers usually give the best haircuts. So we should bring them back just for that.