The U.S. arrest and removal of Socialist Narco-dictator Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela opens the door for several positive outcomes for the U.S., Americans, Venezuela, and our western hemisphere.

Assuming new, democratic leadership emerges in Venezuela and any remnants of Maduro’s regime are shut out of power, U.S. national interests will be enhanced by fewer drugs—including fentanyl—pouring into the U.S. and the destabilization of U.S. adversaries in our hemisphere, including Cuba, China, Russia, and Iran.

U.S. national interests also greatly benefit from the departure and removal of Venezuelan nationals—the good and the bad—who came to the U.S.

With respect to immigration, we could see Venezuela become the model for concluding temporary immigration to the U.S.

Let’s start with the undesirables who came here from Venezuela.

Declassified reports state the Maduro regime facilitated the illegal immigration of dangerous gang members into the U.S., including Tren de Aragua (TdA)—a Venezuelan prison gang—to destabilize American governments and undermine public safety.

The Venezuelan convicted of murdering Laken Riley—a Georgia nursing student—appears to have........

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