More than 800,000 Venezuelan migrants have poured into the US in the last four years, including hundreds of members of the brutal prison gang Tren de Aragua.
But, the Biden administration gave up trying to deport the criminals and gangbangers in January after the Venezuelan government stopped accepting deportation flights from the US.
It’s a problem President-elect Donald Trump will have to solve in order to make good on his promise of mass deportations.
Tom Homan, the man Trump has tapped as his border czar to lead the lead the deportation and border security efforts said the incoming administration has a lot of leverage to force Venezuela to start accepting deportations — including threatening even more sanctions and withholding aid, which totaled $209 million last year.
“He got El Salvador to take back MS-13, he got Mexico to agree to the Remain in Mexico program. So I got faith in President Trump to work with the president of Venezuela,” said Homan.
Venezuelan has been one of the biggest sources of migrants traveling to the US. Millions of Venezuelans have left their home country in recent years, fleeing the corruption and economic collapse brought on by the communist regime of President Nicolás Maduro.
But, the Biden administration gave up trying to deport the criminals and gangbangers in January after the Venezuelan government stopped accepting deportation flights from the US.
It’s a problem President-elect Donald Trump will have to solve in order to make good on his promise of mass deportations.
Tom Homan, the man Trump has tapped as his border czar to lead the lead the deportation and border security efforts said the incoming administration has a lot of leverage to force Venezuela to start accepting deportations — including threatening even more sanctions and withholding aid, which totaled $209 million last year.
“He got El Salvador to take back MS-13, he got Mexico to agree to the Remain in Mexico program. So I got faith in President Trump to work with the president of Venezuela,” said Homan.
Venezuelan has been one of the biggest sources of migrants traveling to the US. Millions of Venezuelans have left their home country in recent years, fleeing the corruption and economic collapse brought on by the communist regime of President Nicolás Maduro.
