Venezuelan corruption in US

 The Federalist:

Venezuelan Busted For Extorting Illegals In PA Exposes Evil Side Effect Of Biden’s Open Borders

When a party of four Venezuelans and one Colombian crawled through a hole in a fence at the United States-Mexico border, they knew they were entering the U.S. illegally. But they didn’t know they would become witnesses for the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a human trafficking case against Venezuelan national Cesar David Martinez-Gonzalez of Chester, Pennsylvania.

Gonzalez pled guilty this month to conspiring to illegally bring aliens to the United States and to encourage and induce aliens to enter the United States for private financial gain.

According to the DOJ, Gonzalez helped smuggle “dozens of migrants” from South America to the United States illegally so he could profit from their labor. He faces a maximum of 120 years in prison and will be sentenced March 18.

The five witnesses in the case, whose names and occupations have been sealed by the court at the request of the DOJ, told investigators how they came under Gonzalez’s control.

In September 2022, two married couples and another person arranged to meet human smugglers, known as coyotes, and prepared to cross the Rio Grande River. While crossing the river, the coyotes pointed them to the hole in the fence to cross into the U.S.

Gonzalez paid the coyotes to escort the five to the border, according to the indictment. The fees are $800 for an adult and $600 for a child.

The five, who were apparently all adults, were told that if they were picked up by immigration authorities once in the US, to give the address of their intended destination, which was a residence Gonzalez and his co-conspirators owned.

Indeed, the five were caught and then released by US Customs and Border Protection in Texas, according to the indictment.

Gonzalez and his co-conspirators booked and paid for airplane flights so the illegal aliens could fly to Philadelphia International Airport, the indictment said.

Once in Philadelphia, Gonzalez and his co-conspirators picked them up at the airport, and took them to a residence in Chester used to house aliens.

Gonzalez told the five they owed him “substantial debts for his assistance” and that they should remain in one of the homes he owned and work at jobs he arranged to pay off the debts. The debt was much more than the cost of transporting and housing them, although the indictment did not say how much he demanded.
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This is one of the many consequences of the Biden open borders policy.  Apparently, Biden and the Democrats believed this policy would eventually lead to them dominating US politics.  Of course, the policy also opened the border to criminals as many countries emptied their prisons and sent the former inmates to the US.  The incoming Trump administration will have to clean up the mess Biden made of US immigration.