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Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes
npr ^ | June 30, 2026 | Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

Posted on 06/30/2026 7:37:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin

146 Venezuelan nationals who landed in Caracas after being deported from the U.S. on Wednesday.

Passengers on that plane, which included women and children, were being processed in a guarded hotel in La Guaira when powerful twin earthquakes struck, according to family members. The building they were in pancaked.

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To: BenLurkin

Well that’s sad but they were subject to all the same risks as the rest of their countrymen in their own country that day.


21 posted on 06/30/2026 8:02:37 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Freee-dame

“ many appear to have no rebar in them at all.”
Rebar is an expensive holdover from the racist colonizers. We don need no stinkin rebar…🥞


22 posted on 06/30/2026 8:05:51 AM PDT by 9422WMR ( )
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To: BenLurkin

oh well, if they had been here, some illegal alien gang banger would of probably killed them.

Life is risky


23 posted on 06/30/2026 8:07:39 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: BenLurkin

Illegals here have killed far more Americans than that.

Cry me a river.


24 posted on 06/30/2026 8:11:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, I guess they won’t be returning to America.


25 posted on 06/30/2026 8:12:36 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: BenLurkin

Ooops!


26 posted on 06/30/2026 8:13:13 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: BenLurkin

Stuff happens. 😐


27 posted on 06/30/2026 8:13:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: BenLurkin

Not surprised Trump is blamed for the earthquake.

Good thing we don’t have a Dem in office - like George W. Bush - who’d offer up TPS to 100s of thousands of Venezuelan “victims” - same as was offered El Salvadorans after an earthquake in 2001 - “temporary” = 25 years ago and they’re still here. And, that was the second one! They were offered TPS also in 1990.

This gave the Salvadorans plenty of time to foment MS-13, a vicious gang formed in Los Angeles and spread out all over the U.S.


28 posted on 06/30/2026 8:14:54 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: BenLurkin

If we could deport NPR to an active earthquake zone that would be great.


29 posted on 06/30/2026 8:17:58 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Stuff happens. 😐

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“Stuff” happens - with apologies to Chuck Barris and The Gong Show. (grin)


30 posted on 06/30/2026 8:23:29 AM PDT by dagunk
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To: BenLurkin

Uhmmmm....well....


31 posted on 06/30/2026 8:30:06 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: BenLurkin

Likely they would have died just the same, unknown to the US media, if they had not come illegally.


32 posted on 06/30/2026 8:34:30 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: Jonty30

If they had stayed home in the first place, they probably would still be alive.

Illegal immigration has consequences.


33 posted on 06/30/2026 8:43:07 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminisheRs the human spirit.)
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To: BenLurkin

They took the ‘Road Less Traveled’ and it made all the difference.


34 posted on 06/30/2026 8:44:19 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminisheRs the human spirit.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wait! Why were they being processed? Could it be Venezuela wanted to know who they were before they let them loose in their country?


35 posted on 06/30/2026 8:51:06 AM PDT by Vesuvian
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To: BenLurkin

So we shouldn’t deport anyone just in case there’s a natural disaster sometime in the future?


36 posted on 06/30/2026 8:52:16 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Thank you, Lord. Every day. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝.)
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To: God luvs America

“had they never entered this country illegally this may have never happened”

this is the correct answer

no one is responsible for randomly timed bad events

but their illegal action was part of the chain of events that placed them at the wrong place at the wrong time


37 posted on 06/30/2026 9:07:36 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: Jonty30

hey he can steer hurricanes too.


38 posted on 06/30/2026 9:26:05 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US;-))
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To: BenLurkin

Chance of that being true -— 0%.

Chance of every liberal Democrat believing it’s true and repeating it ad nauseam -— 100%.


39 posted on 06/30/2026 9:40:32 AM PDT by LTC.Ret (I was MAGA when MAGA wasn't cool)
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To: BenLurkin

AND???????


40 posted on 06/30/2026 9:42:31 AM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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