Venezuela’s socialist regime has compared the deportation of the country’s most violent gangsters to slavery and the Holocaust.
Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan gangsters belonging to the transnational organization Tren de Aragua were deported to El Salvador over the weekend after President Trump invoked the Foreign Enemy Act of 1798 to help speed up the deportation of illegal aliens and violent criminals.
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them,… pic.twitter.com/tfsi8cgpD6
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 16, 2025
In addition to violent gangsters, there are also millions of Venezuelans who have fled the economic and humanitarian crisis in their homeland. Many entered the U.S. illegally at the invitation of the Biden regime.
In a lengthy statement published on Sunday evening by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, the Maduro regime denounced the invocation as a “crime against humanity” and claimed that Venezuelan migrants were “hardworking, dignified, and honest men and women.”
The statement read:
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically and forcefully rejects the proclamation issued by the government of the United States, which infamously and unjustly criminalizes Venezuelan migration in an act that evokes the darkest episodes in human history, from slavery to the horrors of Nazi concentration camps.
The Foreign Enemy Act of 1798, upon which this presidential order is based, is an outdated law that not only violates fundamental and current laws of the United States of America but also breaches international legal frameworks regarding human rights.
Its attempted application constitutes a crime against humanity.
The Venezuelan migrant who crossed our borders in search of life alternatives did so for economic reasons, consequences of the hardships inflicted upon our people by the criminal blockade on our economy, imposed by Western governments against Venezuelan society to further their regime change agenda.
The vast majority of these migrants are hardworking, dignified, and honest men and women; they are not terrorists, criminals, nor “foreign enemies.” They are victims.
Venezuela rejects the persecution of our compatriots, including the expropriation of their personal belongings, assets, businesses, vehicles, and bank accounts.
We strongly denounce that our citizens in the United States are being subjected to harassment in their workplaces, schools, churches, hospitals, and public spaces.
With profound indignation, we condemn the threat to abduct children under 14 years of age; never before in history has an official document so brazenly attempted to label children as members of terrorist groups, deeming them criminals solely for being Venezuelan.
While the Trump administration is merely enforcing the law against people who have no right to be in the United States, perhaps the greatest irony of all is the fact that it is Venezuela that has brutally repressed its citizens over the past three decades.
Back in 2020, the left-wing former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet published a United Nations report that concluded the regime was guilty of crimes against humanity, mainly through thousands of extrajudicial killings and the systematic use of torture against political prisoners.
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