The ongoing political crisis in Venezuela threatens to spill over to the U.S. as millions of Venezuelans may be looking to escape here.

The country has been engulfed in chaos over the past month after communist President Nicolas Maduro claimed victory in an election that most international observers and U.S. officials say he lost decisively. The ensuing protests and political unrest threaten to shatter an already fragile situation in the struggling country, which could result in millions more migrants to the U.S. border. A poll published earlier this month found that more than 10 million Venezuelans are considering fleeing the country, and it’s not too hard to guess where many of them would be headed.

Even before this latest political crisis, Venezuela has been one of the biggest sources of illegal immigration to the U.S., and they are not always sending their best and brightest. A Homeland Security intelligence report published in 2022 found that Maduro was deliberately emptying his country’s jails, and facilitating the migration of violent Venezuelan criminals into the U.S.

There is plenty of data to back this report up as violent deaths in Venezuela fell to a 22-year low last year. The most likely........

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