Venezuela has THE LARGEST PROVEN OIL RESERVES IN THE WORLD, ahead of eve Saudi Arabia.
Communism ruins everything it touches every single time.
Posted on 02/06/2024 2:00:31 AM PST by devane617
The largest growing criminal organization in the world has infiltrated its way into the United States, said an El Paso FBI agent.
The Tren de Aragua, or the “Aragua Train,” gained notoriety after its founding in 2012 by Hector Guerrero, alias “Niño Guerrero” or Warrior Kid, in the state of Aragua located in the north-central region of Venezuela.
Operating initially from Tocorón prison in Venezuela, the gang made headlines after 11,000 police officers raided the prison back in September, uncovering a zoo, nightclub, swimming pools, and a children’s playground.
What they did not find was any sign of Guerrero, the head of the gang.
The Venezuelan police presume he fled the prison via concrete tunnels and is now leading the gang from somewhere else. Guerrero is not the only one who fled the prison. Hundreds of other criminals also fled, making it the biggest escape of prisoners ever in the country, according to a report in InsightCrime.org, a think tank and media organization dedicated to reporting and analyzing organized crime in the Americas.
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Our enemies are those who allowed this to happen
State Dept: The United States is the largest single donor for the response to the Venezuela “regional crisis.”
This brings total U.S. assistance to more than $2.8 billion since 2017.
That includes more than $2.5 billion in “humanitarian assistance” and $387 million in “development assistance.” (Mar 17, 2023)
Ditto.
ny1.com
Biden grants protection to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, SPECTRUM NEWS STAFF
AND ANGI GONZALEZ WASHINGTON, D.C.
PUBLISHED 8:41 PM ET SEP. 20, 2023
The Biden administration said Wednesday that it was granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country as it grapples with growing numbers of people fleeing the South American country and elsewhere to arrive at the U.S. border with Mexico.
The move — along with promises to accelerate work permits for many migrants — may appease Democratic leaders who have pressured the White House to do more to aid asylum seekers, while also providing grist for Republicans who say the president has been too lax on immigration.
What You Need To Know
The Biden administration is granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country. The move makes it easier for them to get work authorization in the U.S.
The promise of accelerated work permits does not apply to people who cross the border illegally and seek asylum, who, by law, must wait for six months to receive work permits
The administration said that it would accelerate work authorizations for people who have arrived in the country since January through a mobile app for appointments at land crossings with Mexico, called CBP One, or through parole granted to Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who have financial sponsors and arrive at an airport
The Biden Homeland Security Department plans to grant Temporary Protected Status to an estimated 472,000 Venezuelans who arrived in the country as of July 31, 2023, making it easier for them to get authorization to work in the U.S., a key demand of Democratic mayors and governors who are struggling to care for an increased number of migrants in their care.
That’s in addition to about 242,700 Venezuelans who already qualified for temporary status before Wednesday’s announcement.
The Biden protections for Venezuelans are significant because they account for such a large number of the migrants who have been arriving in the country in recent years.
Venezuela plunged into a political, economic and humanitarian crisis over the last decade, pushing at least 7.3 million people to migrate and making food and other necessities unaffordable for those who remain. The vast majority who fled settled in neighboring countries in Latin America, but many began coming to the United States in the last three years through the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap, a stretch of jungle in Panama.
Venezuelans who arrive in the U.S. after July 31 of this year will not be eligible for the protection. Those who are now eligible have to apply to get it.
Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas granted the expansion and an 18-month extension for those who already have temporary status due to “Venezuela’s increased instability and lack of safety due to the enduring humanitarian, security, political, and environmental conditions,” the department said in a statement.
The Biden administration said that it would accelerate work authorizations for people who have arrived in the country since January through a mobile app for appointments at land crossings with Mexico, called CBP One, or through parole granted to Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who have financial sponsors and arrive at an airport. It will aim to give them work permits within 30 days, compared to about 90 days currently.
The promise of accelerated work permits does not apply to people who cross the border illegally and seek asylum, who, by law, must wait for six months to receive work permits.
The number of migrants trying to cross the southern border is rising. That poses a severe challenge for the Biden administration, which has struggled to show it is in control of the border in the face of Republican criticism. The city of Eagle Pass, which borders Mexico along the Rio Grande in southern Texas, announced a state of emergency Wednesday due to a “severe undocumented immigrant surge.”
According to Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber, about 2,700 migrants crossed into Eagle Pass on Tuesday and about 3,000 Wednesday.
The Biden administration also said Wednesday it was also using the Biden Defense Department forces to support Homeland Security staff on the border. Homeland Security already uses about 2,500 National Guard troops to help Customs and Border Protection.
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Sept 2023
In a statement issued Wednesday night, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul praised the Biden federal government for acting “so speedily to grant one of our top priorities: providing Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelan asylum seekers and migrants who have already arrived in this country.”
“There’s more work to do as we address this crisis, but the State of New York is prepared to immediately begin the process of signing people up for work authorization and getting them into jobs so they can become self-sufficient,” Hochul added.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams also praised the Biden decision, adding that he was “hopeful that we can continue to partner with President Biden to extend Temporary Protected Status to the tens of thousands of other migrants still in our care from other countries.”
Funny, the FBI helped aid and abet it.
And now they’re saying it is a problem?
Little late to the party on that one, boys.They should go persecute more Christians instead, that’s all they’re good for these days.
Gov. Pritzker encouraged them to come to Chicago.
Gov. Pritzker, Mayor Johnson cheer Biden administration’s expansion of work permits, protections to Venezuelan migrants
How many tax dollars has the US given to Venezuela?
The United States is the largest humanitarian donor to the Venezuela regional crisis.
Since FY 2017, the United States has provided more than $2.9 billion in humanitarian assistance.
The US will continue to work to support Venezuelans during their time of need.Nov 10, 2023
Thanks for the heads-up.
With over a billion people I would have thought China had the bigger state run criminal organization!
He’s probably in NY on Braggs payroll.
Hey FBI (aka forever bothering Italians) how about taking some resources away from harassing pro life activists, conservative bloggers, and Roman Catholics and go after the real threat?
Your pathetic organization is simply doing a bureaucratic CYA issuing warning threat memos periodically. While in real time KGB wannabes slavishly do the regime’s bidding, aggressively continuing harassments, arrest and unlawful detention of law abiding US citizens who exercise their 1st amendment rights against Jao Bai Dan regime
A criminal gang, according to a criminal regime—
wouldn’t that make them the good guys?
Apparently we do not have 1 law on the books to prevent entry into this country. We need to pass this new law to codify that there are no impediments to entry into this country. That will secure our borders until the next day when their counter starts over.
Venezuela has THE LARGEST PROVEN OIL RESERVES IN THE WORLD, ahead of eve Saudi Arabia.
Communism ruins everything it touches every single time.
Nice find.
Living on the border and watching all those criminal gang military age men scares the chit out of me, because I know what they are capable of doing. The people down south of the border are daily petrified of the cartel gang members what they are capable of doing. Even their very own government and the president is afraid of the cartels. Coming to America very very soon. The cartels are infamous for kidnapping for breaking into houses holding families for ransom etc you name …all the evil ball of wax you can think of cartels can easily bring a nation to its knees! They’re demons. And to think that they are already walking around on our soil Puts even more fear in my heart. You guys haven’t seen nothing yet. Wait until women start disappearing, and their decapitated mutilated bodies found in the deserts…you mark my words it’s going to get bad. I see it and I hear it! Right now the cartel, the Chinese gangs, the muslim terrorists are all laughing all the way through our borders saying “pendejos gringos!”
To be honest....I would speculate that the guy is quietly sitting in Florida (they have the largest number of Venezuelans in the US...near 390,000). I would also speculate that he has some team-member who bought some 50 acre estate, and some drug movement syndicate is being developed around the east coast.
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