Venezuela illegally issued 10,000 passports to Syrians and Iranians

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America’s problem with illegal immigration has reached a crisis point, but Heaven forbid anyone should actually try to do something about it.

At least the Trump administration has taken steps against Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami, who has alleged ties to Hizballah and is reportedly behind the surge of illegal passports.

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“Venezuela illegally issued 10,000 passports to Syrians, Iranians, report says,” FoxNews.com, April 17, 2017:

A former director of Venezuela’s Office of Identification, Migration and Foreigners said that during his 17 months in the post, the socialist government gave at least 10,000 Venezuelan passports and other documents to citizens of Syria, Iran and other Middle Eastern countries.

In an interview with El Nuevo Herald, Colonel Vladimir Medrano Rengifo said the operation was headed by current Vice President Tareck El Aissami.

He said most passports and visas were granted in the Venezuelan Consulate in Damascus, Syria’s capital.

“Today we don’t know where these people are, nor what they are doing,” said Medrano, who currently resides in the United States.

“They can be anywhere in the world, traveling with Venezuelan documentation,” adding that the number of Middle Eastern individuals with irregular Venezuelan documentation could be much larger.

Colonel Medrano was dismissed in October 2009 by El Aissami, who was then Minister of Interior and Justice. According to Medrano, El Aissami fired him because he knew he was trying to dismantle the human smuggling network.

El Aissami, one of the most powerful men in Venezuela, has long been investigated in the United States for his alleged links to drug trafficking and to the Islamist militant group Hezbollah.

In January he became the most senior Venezuelan official to ever be targeted by the U.S., when the Trump administration decreed sanctions against him and Samark Lopez, a wealthy Venezuelan businessman believed to be his front man in Miami.

In the Sunday interview, Medrano told El Nuevo Herald that El Aissami was directly involved in the passport scheme. He said that whenever his office reported irregularities involving Syria-issued passports, El Aissami ordered him to look the other way.

Medrano said the passports were legitimate, but the people carrying them were not Venezuelans.

“[El Aissami] called me every time these flights landed (…) and we tried to detain [the people carrying the suspicious passports]. He pressured us in an excessive manner so this would not be done and let his ‘cousins’ get in, as he called them,” Medrano told the Herald.

Upon review by immigration officials at the airport, Medrano explained, the identity linked to those passports turned out to belong to deceased persons, with a different name….

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Dr. Doomsday
Dr. Doomsday
6 years ago

Probably got lots of terrorist money for all that too. Lousy Commies. Just wait, they’ll be over our border soon, with all their bogus paperwork.

Citizen 1949
Citizen 1949
6 years ago
Reply to  Dr. Doomsday

If Colonel Medrano was dismissed in October 2009 and this was going on during his 17 months in the post then they are most likely already here since this was around 9 to 10 years ago. The illegal passports could have been used all during the Obama administration.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

It is time for the Americans to pay attention to business and who they allow into the country for any reason. Visiting a foreign nation is a privilege, not a right, that should be impressed on everyone, visitors and security staff.

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

The Trump admin should send an immediate message to Venezuela. If any of those bastards manages to land on U.S. soil with those visas, there’ll be hell to pay in the form of MANY MOAB’s raining down on them (we’ve got a few to spare) So, note to Venezuela: ‘You better get your s**t together. Because if we have to fix it, you’re not going to like it.’

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

This is an important Muslim trick, trying to pass themselves off as Hispanic. I first noticed them practicing that, 10 or 15 years ago, in my old city. The difference is subtle, but you can catch it if you look closely.

Hook
Hook
6 years ago

When found return to sender. Venezuela

marlene
marlene
6 years ago

The entire Venezuelan government should be rounded up and put in front of a firing squad – on behalf of the millions of children who are slowing dying of starvation!

Dirk Noel Theriault
Dirk Noel Theriault
6 years ago

Well that was helpful! Giving identities to unvetted aliens so they can travel anywhere.
I guess they weren’t happy seeing only Venezuela go down the tubes with
Socialism, they decided to grant people whose intentions were unknown access to the globe.

Steve
Steve
6 years ago

Naturally venezuela being leftist socialist would do this. They want to bring the joy of waiting for hours for a roll of toilet paper to our masses – just like in their country – only they want us to have a bomb along with it.

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