Posted on 03/25/2025 10:15:18 PM PDT by Libloather
An illegal migrant who was convicted of kicking an NYPD cop in the infamous Times Square brawl last year was given a hearty welcome home by a top official in Venezuela — which dissidents of the narco state say is a big middle finger to the United States.
Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, 19, was greeted with a warm hug by the Venezuelan Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, after he stepped off a deportation flight Monday.
Pictures show Gomez-Izquiel with his arms outstretched before a smiling Cabello, a hardliner of the socialist regime of Nicolas Maduro, tightly embraced him.
The Trump administration deported the violent teen after he was convicted in the wild, caught-on-camera January 2024 assault, in which a rowdy mob pounced on a pair of NYPD officers, launching kicks to their heads and bodies.
Venezuelan dissident Daniel DiMartino said that the hero’s welcome by the high-ranking regime official lends “credibility to the idea advanced by Trump that Maduro is using illegal immigration as a tool to attack the United States,” adding that “these criminals should be imprisoned in El Salvador or here, not rewarded with return to Venezuela.”
Patricia Andrade, who runs the Miami-based Venezuela Awareness Foundation, said the image “confirms” that Gomez-Izquiel’s criminal “mission” in the US “was accomplished.”
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Over a year to deport, and it only happened because of Trump. If Junkie Jezebel was POTUS he would be here indefinitely.
Drop them off at 500’ without a parachute.
They’re not sending us their best - President Trump
“but they take the resources that Americans won’t take!” /s
Little turd can smile all he wants...in Venezuela and not here...
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