South American Police Chief Warns Americans to Brace for a Terror Wave | Over The Target

Amid the renewed focus on the crisis at the southern border that's come about with the sending of migrants to Martha's Vineyard and such places, a very troubling report has come through and that the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela has been releasing convicts from its prisons and sending them to the southern border. Yeah, Brennan, that's worrisome news for sure. The last thing that America needs right now is another spike in crime, except there might be even more difficulties behind this recent news. It might, in fact, touch on American national security. Let's get into some details. I'm Brennan Fallin. And I'm Lee Smith. And we're Over the Target. So this issue of illegal immigrants lately from Venezuela being sent to Martha's Vineyard has become almost a source of national amusement, as we've seen with some late night shows. Sent all these Venezuelan migrants, did you see this, to Martha's Vineyard? He wanted to send a message to those migrants, like, if you come here, you will get a free plane ride to a wealthy island. Well, look, I mean, as other people have pointed out, these are human beings. And what's happened in Venezuela since Hugo Chávez, and then, of course, with Maduro as well, is tragic. It's a terrible thing to happen to a once prosperous and stable country. People have described what Governor DeSantis did as a political stunt. I think that's unfair. I think the way to understand this is that when you have communities like Martha's Vineyard, liberal communities, and they vote for different policies, and they promote themselves as sanctuary cities, I think it's important to see that when they're actually asked to pick up the tab for something they support, and they want other people to pay for, it's hardly surprising to see them turn away from what they once claimed was the responsibility of the entire country. As it turns out, they want nothing to do with it. That makes a lot of sense, Lee. And something that Governor DeSantis has said in all of this that stood out to me is that there's been so many corporate media there focused at Martha's Vineyard because these illegal immigrants have been sent there. They're troubling rich people. But there's a complete absence of corporate media covering what's happened at the southern border. There are very few reporters down on the southern border seeing how this affects all of these different communities. And again, for all of the sympathy that not only the media, but that most of the American ruling class expresses for the working class, especially for Latinos, you see that these are Latino communities that are suffering down there because of the open borders. And of course, they have no real sympathy for those people that have to deal with the policies they vote for and support. The dangers stemming from this issue of having an insecure southern border are vast and they impact people in a multitude of ways. I mean, we've heard reports of people being threatened by human traffickers. They see someone wandering around on their property. They don't know who they are. They don't know what this person is capable of. So really, the nation needs to be aware of what these people are dealing with. What is also bringing this issue to attention is the latest report that came from a DHS document that the Nicolas Maduro regime is releasing prisoners, criminals, and sending them to the southern border. Upon hearing this, it reminded me of something. I wonder if you had the same association when you heard about this, Lee. Yeah, of course. It's right out of the Fidel Castro playbook. We saw this in 1980 when Castro emptied his prisons and sent a whole bunch of extremely bad people to the United States. And of course, Brendan, I know that you being a big cinema fan, you're aware of the Al Pacino classic, Scarface, which is, of course, about a number of Cuban immigrants who were sent out of the prisons and sent to the United States. I think we can take a quick look and do that movie a quick tribute. So there are indications these are serious criminals that are being sent across. These are people convicted of murder, of rape, of extortion. And this is just one aspect of the threat when we have an insecure border. Another very serious aspect of this is the fentanyl crisis that we're experiencing. And something that I remember, Jason Jones, who's a security operative based in Texas at the southern border, saying that 100% of the fentanyl coming through the southern border is coming from China. And this gives you an idea of the scope that this creates for foreign actors, for a foreign regime to exploit that situation and really disrupt the operations in a country and endanger its people. There's tens of thousands of people in America dying each year from fentanyl overdose. Yeah, Brendan, you're absolutely right. The issues here, it's not just about illegal immigration. It's not just about sending criminals over. It's by opening up our borders, we've exposed ourselves to major national security threats. And fentanyl is just one aspect. And it's part of the CCP's continued campaign to destabilize the United States and to hurt American families. But there are other issues as well, other national security issues as well, that are at stake by opening our borders. And you know, recently, Lee, we've given some attention to the FBI. And in doing that, we've also looked again at revisited 9-11, the terrorist attack on the United States. And this is a situation where you had these individuals, these hijackers, one of them came in on a U.S. visa, others came and settled in the U.S. for a period of time. And if this is any indication of the intelligence community's capability to deal with this kind of threat, they very clearly didn't know anything about it or weren't aware of their presence until it was obviously too late. We've spoken in the past about the fact that 300,000 Chinese student visa holders, it's too much for the FBI to cover. There's lots of espionage, Chinese CCP espionage, going on in the United States, but the FBI doesn't have the resources to cover it. And that's when the FBI is really on the ball instead of having all the problems it has now. So can you imagine what are the services that are going to be able to cover reportedly 2 million illegal aliens who have crossed the border since Joe Biden took office? There is no way to cover these various potential national security threats. And this brings to mind another report that I saw recently in relation to the refugees that have been coming out of Afghanistan. This was from a whistleblower complaint that the Department of Defense was not adequately vetting these people. 324 Afghan evacuees that appeared on the DOD's watch list, which includes known terrorists, were not properly vetted before their entry into the country. Here's the thing. People say that they were unvetted. The real issue is most of them are unvettable. By which I mean, if you look at these different countries and you look at the populations that are moving across our borders, there is no record of these people. So unless we're talking about Afghanistanis now, either they work for the United States or they're on terror watch lists. That's the only way that we can identify these different people. And the same we're going to find people crossing the border. It's not only Latin Americans. There's people from all over the world who are crossing that border. Many of them are poor people from poor countries and records are not properly kept. So there's millions of people flooding across our border and we have no idea who they are. It's impossible to vet them through the ways in which our domestic intelligence services are now accustomed to vetting travelers by computer. These people don't appear in computer databases. To really grasp the threat that Venezuela represents to not just the United States but the world, it's really necessary to understand the status quo in Venezuela at the moment. And what really influences the status quo in Venezuela is the socialist regime's ties to Iran, to Russia, and the Chinese Communist Party. Yes, all of those foreign actors have bad intentions for the United States. We know that the Venezuelans have given room to the Russians and to the Chinese, as well as the Iranians, to operate in their country. Actually, in 2021, I went to Miami and I interviewed Ivan Simonoves. Ivan was the secretary of the police corps in Caracas in the early 2000s. He was sympathetic to the protesters against the Chávez regime and ended up being put under false arrest and falsely imprisoned by Chávez for 15 years and then managed to escape while he was in house arrest. So this is an excerpt from that interview where Ivan is talking about some of the very suspicious activity that's happening involving Iran in Venezuela. And this is information he's received from his sources who are part of the security apparatus under the Maduro regime. If you're enjoying this episode of Over the Target on YouTube, you can find the full episode on Epoch TV, where we can discuss sensitive issues like the southern border crisis without worrying about being cancelled or censored. Watch us exclusively on Epoch TV, where you'll find not only Over the Target, but all your favorite Epoch TV shows, like Vital Signs with Brendan Falun.