2022
VENEZUELAN PRISONER CARAVANS COMING TO U.S. SOUTHERN BORDER
portion of Letter to DHS from CONGRESSMAN AUGUST PFLUGER
Representing the 11th District of Texas
...There have been reports of a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intelligence report indicating that the Maduro regime is releasing violent prisoners from Venezuela to be sent in migrant caravans to the Southwest border. Allegedly, the intelligence report directs Border Patrol agents to search for Venezuelan convicts – including possible FTO and TCO affiliates –attempting to enter the U.S. Despite this, however, it is particularly difficult for Border Patrol agents to identify Venezuelans with terrorist affiliations and criminal records given poor diplomatic relations and gaps in information sharing between the United States and Venezuela....
...The number of Venezuelan migrants encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has increased nearly 3,000 percent from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2022. Given the reports of the deliberate, nefarious actions of the illegitimate Maduro regime, it is more important than ever that CBP has the tools and capabilities in place to identify foreign violent criminals, affiliates of FTOs, and affiliates of TCOs....
https://pfluger.house.gov/news/docum...DocumentID=576
follow up letter
https://nehls.house.gov/sites/evo-su...0Venezuela.pdf
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...-us-rcna156290