Trump Floats a Pathway to US Citizenship to All Those Venezuelan Gangsters
If those Venezuelan gang members and mental patients trying to "invade" the US were playing the long (baseball) game, they did a masterful job.
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You know what they say: When God closes one door, he opens a window. Or, in the case of all those Venezuelan gang members and mental patients who have allegedly been trying to “invade” the United States but were either kicked out or blocked from entering: When Donald Trump closes the southern border, he opens up a pathway to citizenship that allows every one of them to enter the US legally.
Let’s back up for a moment.
For years, Trump has portrayed gangsters and insane asylum inmates (a peculiar claim that many believe stems from the president not understanding the difference between asylums and claiming asylum) from the South American nation as just the kind of people who have to be kept out of the United States at all costs.
Things are so bad according to Trump that he invoked the Alien Enemies Act a year ago and labeled the gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
He accused TdA of committing “brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking” as well as harming Americans and “undermining public safety.”
As the president tells it, these are the kind of bad hombres you do not want in your country.
Until you do.
Following the US strikes on Venezuela in January and the arrest of President NicolásMaduro, Trump has clearly taken a liking to Venezuela (and its vast oil and gold reserves). He even got that coveted Nobel Peace Prize out of the attack, courtesy of opposition leader María Corina Machado, who in return got to watch the president keep the current regime in charge.
Most recently, the success of Venezuela’s baseball team, which defeated the US in the final of the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday night, has Trump pondering what is in store next for the South American country.
“Wow! Venezuela defeated Italy tonight, 4-2, in the WBC (Baseball!) Semifinal. They are looking really great,” he wrote in a social media post after the team won its semifinal. “Good things are happening to Venezuela lately! I wonder what this magic is all about? STATEHOOD, #51, ANYONE? President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
After its victory over the US, he followed that up with another message that simply said: “STATEHOOD!!!”
It is no secret that Trump has been trying to expand the territory of the US to cement his legacy. He has repeatedly and insistently floated the idea of absorbing Canada and annexing Greenland. With those options off the table for now, it seems as though he is pondering whether Venezuela might satisfy his imperial ambitions.
That would not only increase the size of the United States but also greatly boost its oil reserves at a time when the president’s Iranian war is pushing prices through the roof.
To Trump, who isn’t exactly known for thinking things through (just ask the captains of all those ships waiting in the Strait of Hormuz right now), all of this might sound awesome right now.
However, we wonder how his MAGA supporters feel about making 30 million Venezuelans, including all those gang members and mental patients, citizens overnight.
