Socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro is freeing some of Venezuela’s most violent criminals from prison and sending them to the U.S. southern border, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report.
Violent criminals released from Venezuelan prisons are known to have traveled in migrant caravans heading to the U.S. southern border.
A DHS intelligence report warns U.S. Border Patrol agents that the freed prisoners have been seen within migrant caravans traveling from Tapachula, Mexico toward the U.S.-Mexico border as recently as July.
The Venezuelans who were part of the caravans include those convicted of murder and rape, according to Breitbart Texas, which reviewed the report.
The 50 illegal immigrants who were recently sent to Martha’s Vineyard, which quickly dispatched them to a military base, were mostly Venezuelans.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), between October 2021 and July 2022 more than 130,000 Venezuelan migrants have been encountered after entering the United States illegally.
The DHS intelligence report said it was commonly shared knowledge among migrants traveling to the United States within a caravan in July that many of the Venezuelan migrants in the group were convicts and included hardened criminals. In one Texas-based Border Patrol Sector, single groups of hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants enter the United States daily.
“Another information gap cited in the report acknowledges the unknown role the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), Venezuela’s equivalent to the CIA, may have played in the deliberate releases,” Breitbart Texas cited a source as saying.