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A former gang member has a tattoo characteristic of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang erased with an infrared ray, which burns the top layer of skin off, at a clinic in Chamelecon, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on January 28, 2008. Former gang members and other people with tattoos go through the painful process of having the tattoos removed to improve their chances of employment or to make them less easy to be identified as illegal migrants in the U.S. The gang members in the tattoo removal clinic say active gang members who have their tattoos removed are sometimes murdered by other gang members. (Photo by Edgard Garrido/Reuters)
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