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    Inside the DOW’s Operations Against Narco-Terrorists and Venezuela

    The big issue in Washington right now is what is the United States trying to get out of ongoing operations around Venezuela?  Very rarely is it the case that the question occupying minds on Capitol Hill and in think tanks is the same one everyday Americans are asking. But what’s happening between America and Venezuela…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Rand Paul Says Trump Boat Strikes ‘Prelude to War’ With Venezuela

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug boats are bringing the United States closer to war with Venezuela. Paul, a leading critic of foreign intervention, has sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s continued strikes on alleged drug traffickers and warned the president against pursuing regime…
    Adam Pack
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    Trump Gives Maduro Opportunity to Leave Venezuela Safely, According to Report

    President Donald Trump has reportedly guaranteed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his family safety, but only if they flee the country right away.   Trump and Maduro spoke on the phone in November, and according to a report, the White House told Maduro to leave the country and allow for democratic leaders to assume rule of the nation. Sources told the Miami Harald that Maduro, his…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Says Airspace Above and Around Venezuela Should Be Closed

    WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered “closed in its entirety”, but gave no further details as Washington ramps up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government. “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING…
    Mrinmay Dey
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Venezuela Is No Panama, and Trump Knows This

    While many on the Left, and even some on the Right, believe the Trump administration’s decision to park the USS Gerald R. Ford off the coast of Venezuela is a precursor for war, Victor Davis Hanson argues that President Donald Trump’s “America First” base and recent U.S. history in the region may shine the light…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Open to Talks With Venezuela’s Maduro

    Amid growing tensions, President Donald Trump says Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “would like to talk,” and the U.S. might agree.   “I’d talk to anybody. We’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters Sunday night.   Trump made the comments only hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the U.S. is designating a prominent Venezuelan criminal cartel as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Maduro, according to Rubio, is the head…
    Virginia Allen
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    How Venezuelan Regime Is Supporting Radical, Left-Wing Groups in US

    Venezuela’s regime is coming under increasing pressure from the Trump administration for using the cartels it controls to smuggle drugs into the United States. Last week, President Donald Trump said he had authorized covert CIA actions inside the South American country, a significant escalation. But Caracas’ transgressions extend to other areas. It has also long backed…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Venezuelan Illegal Who Pretended to Be High Schooler Pleads Guilty. Case Puts Spotlight on Operation Take Back America.

    The Venezuelan national who posed as an Ohio high school student for over a year pleaded guilty to four criminal counts Monday. The case highlights the role of a Department of Justice initiative, Operation Taking Back America, in helping fulfill the Trump administration’s promise to tackle illegal immigration. Anthony Emmanuel Labrador-Sierra, From Fake Student to…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Republican ‘Civil War’ Erupts Over Venezuela Strike

    Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called out Vice President JD Vance after Vance bluntly responded to criticism regarding the U.S. striking Venezuelan narcoterrorists in the Caribbean Sea.  “JD ‘ I don’t give a s***’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military’… What a despicable and…
    Olivia Pero
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    WATCH: Speedboat Said to Be Carrying Venezuelan ‘Narcoterrorists’ in Caribbean Destroyed on Trump’s Order

    President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. had carried out a strike against a speedboat said to be carrying narcotics in the southern Caribbean.   “Earlier this morning, on my orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump wrote on…
    Virginia Allen
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    Supreme Court Allows Trump to Proceed With Plans to Remove Deportation Protections for Venezuelan Illegal Aliens

    The Supreme Court will allow, for now, the Trump administration to proceed with plans to strip temporary legal protected status from thousands of illegal aliens from Venezuela living in the U.S.  The court’s decision allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to cancel Temporary Protected Status for illegal aliens who entered the U.S….
    Virginia Allen
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    Media Spins Report on How Venezuela Facilitated Violent Gang’s Invasion of US

    The Venezuelan government was facilitating the illegal immigration of dangerous gang members into the United States, according to multiple intelligence reports, and the legacy media is trying to portray this as bad news for the Trump administration. On Monday The New York Times ran a story with a headline “Declassified Spy Memo Contradicts Trump on Venezuela Gang…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelan Illegal Aliens

    The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can, for now, resume deportations of Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens under the Alien Enemies Act.   “The Supreme Court has upheld the rule of law in our nation by allowing a president, whoever that may be, to be able to secure our borders, and protect our…
    Virginia Allen
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    CBS Paints Trump as Worse Than Venezuelan Gangs

    In the moral battle between President Donald Trump and the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the media have chosen a side. The foreign gangsters are less morally questionable than the president. The Trump administration sent a plane stuffed with alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador, which is apparently more of a crime…
    Tim Graham
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    Venezuela Agrees to Take Back Its Citizens, Releases US Prisoners

    THE CENTER SQUARE—Eleven days after President Donald Trump took office, the Venezuelan government agreed to take back its citizens who illegally entered the U.S., including violent members of Tren de Aragua, and released six U.S. citizens who had been held in Venezuelan prisons. Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy for special missions, went to Venezuela to collect six…
    Bethany Blankley
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    Venezuelan Illegal Alien Gang Activity Wreaking Havoc in US

    A Venezuelan émigré gang is wreaking havoc in U.S. communities. In El Paso, Texas, the Tren de Aragua gang took over a hotel. And in Aurora, Colorado, members of the same Venezuelan gang have been terrorizing residents in rundown apartment complexes.  Tren de Aragua is a “Venezuelan prison gang and … they’ve been wreaking havoc…
    Virginia Allen
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    A Successful US Immigration Policy Would Send Venezuelans Home to Rebuild: The BorderLine

    In July, the Biden-Harris administration extended and “redesignated” something called Temporary Protected Status for Somalis who are present in the U.S. illegally, allowing them to stay here until 2026. Over 700,000 Venezuelan nationals also enjoy this immigration status or are eligible for it under this presidential administration, and more about them later. Somalia got its…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Trump Verdict Makes NYC ‘Venezuela on the Hudson’

    It’s hard to adequately describe what happened to Donald Trump in Venezuela-on-the-Hudson. Outrageous? A travesty of justice? A devasting blow to the sanctity of our justice system and its reputation for fairness and nonpartisanship? An American repetition of the Soviet show trials of the 1930s? It’s all of those things. And you don’t have to…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Agents Arrest 10 Members of Infamous Venezuelan Prison Gang at Southern Border

    The Border Patrol announced the arrests of 10 foreign nationals affiliated with an international prison gang over the Memorial Day weekend, highlighting the threat emanating from the U.S.-Mexico border. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens announced the arrest of the 10 individuals affiliated with Tren de Aragua, an international criminal organization originating in Venezuela whose members…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Venezuela Is Exporting Its Violent Crime Problem to US, Thanks to Biden

    Violent crime is going down in Venezuela just as the United States has been hit with a rash of high-profile violent crimes by illegal immigrants.  It’s not hard to figure out why. The killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia, has become the latest and most prominent case of an American…
    Jarrett Stepman
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