CV NEWS FEED // According to newly released federal government data, President Joe Biden only deported a quarter of a percent of Venezuelan migrants encountered by immigration authorities last fiscal year.
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicated that in fiscal year 2023, authorities encountered 335,000 Venezuelans at the border. Of these, only 834 – 0.25% – were deported.
Rep. Jim Banks, R-IN, reacted to a FOX Business report of the data on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday morning.
“Biden is aiding and abetting an invasion!” the congressman wrote.
Minutes later, X owner Elon Musk shared Banks’ post, adding: “Just posting so the public knows how crazy this is.” In 24 hours, Musk’s post received over 150,000 “likes” from X users.
The billionaire has criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the intensifying crisis at the border on several occasions this year.
According to the Department of the Treasury, the “2023 fiscal year began on October 1, 2022, and ended September 30, 2023.” The 2024 fiscal year began the following day.
ICE and CBP are both agencies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Many observers have charged DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with mishandling the border crisis. A recent poll showed that over 60% of Americans, including nearly half of Democrats, support the embattled secretary’s impeachment.
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Venezuelan migrant Jose Antonio Ibarra is charged with brutally murdering University of Georgia (UGA) nursing student Laken Riley on February 22. Ibarra entered the country illegally in 2022. In the months prior to the murder, he twice eluded authorities and avoided deportation.
In December, illegal Venezuelan immigrant Edina Bracho crashed her minivan into an American family’s Jeep. Bracho was reportedly driving on the wrong side of the road and going nearly double the speed limit. FOX News added that she did not have a valid driver’s license.
Twelve-year-old Travis Wolfe passed away from injuries sustained in the crash last week, after spending three months on life support. His parents and Bracho’s own children were injured in the crash but not fatally so.
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Wolfe’s older sister, Taylor, told FOX: “It makes me really angry.”
“Everybody here has to get a driver’s license and we all have to learn how to drive and … take a test to get our license,” she continued. “[Bracho] didn’t do that.”
“Second of all, [Bracho] wasn’t supposed to be here,” Taylor Wolfe added. “Now my family is stuck with the loss of a child because she didn’t know how to drive.”
“[Travis] was a very sweet soul,” his sister said. “He always tried to light up the room.”
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, responded to news of the boy’s death on X Monday.
“This is what an open border does,” the senator wrote. “Say his name.”
Last week, FOX News national correspondent Bill Melugin reported:
CBP source provided an internal CBP intelligence bulletin revealing tattoos/identifiers for Tren De Aragua, the Venezuelan prison gang that has been entering the U.S. illegally through the southern border.
“Both CBP source [and] an ICE source expressed frustration that these Venezuelan gang members are extremely difficult to deport because Venezuela won’t take their citizens back right now,” Melugin added.
“They can be removed to Mexico, but I’m told they typically then re-enter the U.S. illegally as a ‘gotaway,’” he wrote. “Venezuela is currently not taking any removal flights from the U.S.”
Melugin also noted that his ICE source told him: “We have a ton of Venezuelans that we can’t get rid of.”
Around the same time illegal migration to the United States began to surge to unprecedented levels, the country of Venezuela experienced a dramatic reduction in violent crime.
CatholicVote reported last month:
“The murder rate in Venezuela was a massive crisis for the country,” political commentator Mike Cernovich recently pointed out on X. “The murder rate has sharply declined since [President] Joe Biden opened the borders. Now the [United States] gets to experience these murders and gang attacks.”
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One article from 2019 referred to Venezuela’s murder rate as “soaring,” adding that it has “plunged the nation into a public health crisis.”
However, Cernovich also cited a Bloomberg piece from December 2023 acknowledging that the country’s murder rate is the “lowest since 2001.” The article also acknowledges that this comes as a record number of migrants are leaving the country.
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