In the aftermath of the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley by an illegal immigrant, the media is doing its best to completely ignore the real issue: illegal immigration.

However, Blaze News senior editor Daniel Horowitz has the real stats, warning that Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is essentially emptying out his prisons and sending the criminals to America.

Many of those criminals are part of the brutal gang Tren de Aragua.

“You can’t blame him. He knew that our door was open, so he figured he’d get rid of his problems,” Horowitz tells Glenn Beck.

After speaking to agents and reporters down at the Darién Gap in Panama, Horowitz has gathered that no one’s ever seen so many young men, covered in tattoos, crossing the border.

“What I’m hearing is that the Venezuelans have the highest concentration of criminal elements simply because it’s not by accident. It’s not natural selection that, you know, you’re going to have a lot of ruffians coming over a border because that’s what a lot of them do,” he explains, adding, “this is a concerted effort on the part of Maduro to send his prison gangs up here.”

Regarding the stats, 2,000 of the 14,000 homicide arrests in a given year are accounted for among the jurisdiction of ICE illegal aliens.

“Some of them are legal, but, you know, criminal elements that are deportable,” Horowitz tells Glenn, noting that this is even before Biden was in office.

Horowitz reports that in 2023, 335,000 Venezuelans came into the country.

“Now, you have all these Venezuelans coming in, committing crimes, often three or four crimes, and they get released every time,” Horowitz explains.

“This is a chaos operation,” Glenn says, disturbed.

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