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‘Ghost criminals’: How Venezuelan gang members are slipping into the U.S.
NBC News | Comcast ^ | June 12, 2024 | By Laura Strickler, Julia Ainsley, Didi Martinez and Tom Winter

Posted on 06/12/2024 4:30:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

U.S. law enforcement and immigration officials have launched more than 100 investigations of crimes tied to suspected members of a violent Venezuelan gang, including sex trafficking in Louisiana and the point-blank shooting of two New York City police officers, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials.

The cases involving the Tren de Aragua gang show how hard it is for U.S. border agents to vet the criminal backgrounds of migrants from countries like Venezuela that won’t give the U.S. any help.

More than 330,000 Venezuelans crossed the U.S. border last year, according to Customs and Border Protection data, and Venezuela, like Cuba, China and a handful of other countries, doesn’t provide any criminal history information to U.S. officials.

As former Border Patrol agent Ammon Blair told NBC News, unless agents get a Venezuelan migrant’s criminal history from Interpol or “they already have a criminal record inside the United States, we won’t know who they are.”

The NYPD calls them “ghost criminals,” with little to identify them except gang tattoos.

During the Trump administration, border officials encountered about 3 million undocumented people crossing into the U.S.

During the Biden administration, the number of people trying to enter the U.S. has risen to 10 million to date, and the composition of the migrant flow has changed.

About 800,000 Venezuelans have tried to cross since 2021, with the number surging from about 50,500 in fiscal year 2021 to 334,900 in fiscal year 2023. The influx posed a unique challenge for the Biden administration.

By last fall, Venezuelans were the majority of new arrivals to Chicago, New York and Denver, causing their Democratic mayors to raise concerns with the Biden administration about who was entering their cities and how they would be able to support themselves without draining local resources.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; crime; election2024; gangs; illegalaliens; invasion; trendearagua; venezuela

1 posted on 06/12/2024 4:30:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These countries are emptying their prisons.


2 posted on 06/12/2024 4:33:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Venezuela is a failed state and they are trying to dump their trash over here.


3 posted on 06/12/2024 4:36:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Simón Bolivar is rolling over in his grave and what his country has become.


4 posted on 06/12/2024 4:43:15 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Slipping? Hell they are walking in and getting thousands of dollars when they “walk in”.


5 posted on 06/12/2024 4:45:28 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Slipping into the country? No, they’re just walking in, collecting their welcome basket and free flight to the state of their choice. It’s not like they have to be ninjas, or nuthin’.


6 posted on 06/12/2024 4:46:20 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

the “how” is very easy...the “why” on the other hand nobody seems too terribly interested in


7 posted on 06/12/2024 4:46:41 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NO ONE is “slipping in” the USA . . . . . joe invited them, handcuffed the border patrol and shits his pants in public places.


8 posted on 06/12/2024 4:49:44 AM PDT by knarf (BEC)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I saw a thread where a bunch of scumbag parents dressed their children in rainbow clothes and gave them rainbow flags and took them to a fag show: fags in women's clothes. Everybody was smiling and laughing.

Then I see threads like these and expect that the United States is going to pay dearly for exiling Christ from America.

Gal 6:7-8: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

9 posted on 06/12/2024 5:16:15 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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To: Singermom
DHS has become a travel agency for our enemies.

Our Gov't Is Insane'! Alejandro Mayorkas Explains DHS's 'Safe Mobility Offices' in S. America(Travel Agency)
10 posted on 06/12/2024 5:33:52 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The gangs are entering the Country because Ibizi/Biden and Dems allow it.


11 posted on 06/12/2024 5:37:27 AM PDT by chopperk (are)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the wonderful Border Patrol clowns are their welcome wagon. They do the Concertina Hi Five Wire cut for them, change their diapers and issue them with cell phones loaded with all the “american cream” free stuff. The Vennies are the most dangerous of all miggies invading America at this time.


12 posted on 06/12/2024 5:48:06 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: MtnClimber

it’s easy...
Catch one of them breaking the law... check their country of origin... Send them back the way they came in. Drop them at the border and leave them with a bottle of water and a half loaf of bread. Give mexico some trade benefits in exchange to deal with them. Let them riot in Tajuana.

Wipe hands... done for the day.


13 posted on 06/12/2024 5:52:00 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

THESE Criminals are so TATTED UP, they are VERY HARD TO MISS.


14 posted on 06/12/2024 11:10:42 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Slipping into, or being allowed in?


15 posted on 06/12/2024 11:11:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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