If you’ve been following the illegal migrant news recently, you have no doubt noticed that the country of Venezuela and its fleeing citizens are getting frequent mention. Venezuela, currently under the rule of communist Nicolás Maduro Moros, has hemorrhaged people in recent years–according to the United Nations, nearly seven million of them so far. Many of those refugees are coming to the United States: between October 2021 and July 2022, more than 130,000 Venezuelans crossed into the U.S. In August alone, 25,000 came through. Most have been admitted.
From an intelligence report shared anonymously by a CBP agent with Breitbart News, it’s no surprise that many of those arriving are coming straight from Venezuela’s jails and prisons. The report charges that the Moros government, in a move reminiscent of Fidel Castro’s Mariel Boatlift of 1980, is deliberately releasing violent criminals and sending them to the United States, which is thoughtlessly letting them in.
The U.S. does not maintain regular diplomatic relations with Venezuela and so does not have access to that country’s criminal databases, which might alert them to a given migrant’s criminal past.
“Unless we apprehend someone who voluntarily tells us they have committed a violent crime in Venezuela, we can only guess and that doesn’t work well,” the source told Breitbart. “They will more than likely be released.”
Given this administration’s extremely lax attention to border security, there is no guarantee that knowing of an “asylum seeker’s” criminal past would make a difference anyway. Biden welcomes all.
For more, see Breitbart News.