{fdd.org} ~ On January 8, the Trump administration sanctioned a network of corrupt Venezuelan businessmen and senior officials for their role in a multi-billion dollar bribery and embezzlement scheme... just days ahead of the inauguration of Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro as president. That the Treasury Department targeted senior Venezuelan officials ahead of Maduro’s inauguration is unsurprising; what is novel is Treasury’s newfound willingness to compel a sanctioned person to relinquish their ownership and control of a large business by offering to lift sanctions on that company if new non-sanctioned parties assume ownership and control. Globovision is now subject to sanctions because any company that is owned by a single person or multiple persons subject to sanctions – meaning they have an ownership stake of 50 percent or more – is automatically sanctioned. This is commonly referred to as a “derivative designation.” What was novel in this case – going beyond similar actions such as the efforts to force Russian SDN Oleg Deripaska to give up ownership and control of EN+ and Rusal – is that Treasury did not just issue the designation, but clearly spelled out what actions Globovision would have to take to get sanctions lifted. In May 2013, Globovision was sold to a consortium of businessmen – including Gorrin and Gustavo Perdomo, who was also designated along with Gorrin – with close ties to the Maduro government. Up until that point, it was Venezuela’s last major television station still critical of the government. The prior ownership group claimed that mounting government fines and political harassment compelled them to sell. The use of sanctions to wrest this station from Venezuelan government control could restore some of the network’s independence. Gorrin was well known to U.S. authorities before his designation, as the Justice Department indicted him this past August on corruption and money laundering charges. Gorrin’s main partner in this scheme, former Venezuelan Treasurer Alejandro Andrade, pleaded guilty in U.S. court to money laundering charges and reportedly admitted receiving $1 billion in bribes from Gorrin...
Since Nevada is not a sanctuary state like neighboring California, law-enforcement officials were able to hold Martinez-Guzman on immigration charges while they collected additional evidence on the murder cases. Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said the suspect “was likely in the United States illegally and was detainable.” And Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said authorities “feel confident” they have “evidence that will link him to all four homicides,” as well as burglary and possession of stolen property.
There are, of course, success stories of apprehending criminal illegal aliens before they harm any Americans. The Washington Times reports, “Zabi-Ullah Hemmat wasn’t just one of 415,816 illegal immigrants caught at the southwest border in fiscal 2016. Nor was he just another of the 84 people from Afghanistan apprehended by Border Patrol agents that year. … Mr. Hemmat is one of the terrorism suspects caught trying to sneak into the U.S. from Mexico.” Authorities found him on the no-fly list.
The Department of Homeland Security says 3,000 similarly “special interest” migrants were “encountered” by border agents in 2018. But, warned DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, “These are just the terror suspects we know about who reach our border.”
Exactly. But rather than secure our border, Democrats want to keep the government shut down and expand “sanctuary” cities. It’s worth noting that the vast majority of illegals truly are just trying to make a better life for themselves in America. Yet there are wolves among the sheep, and something must be done to keep them out. ~The Patriot Post
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Bonnie
I do believe the world is coming to believe the USA is not a welfare state. But the way it looks they don't care they are coming no matter what. I wonder who is in charges, scumbag-Soro? Maybe if their own country offer free stuff they would stay in their own country. That will never happen, thu.
great that they are trying to make a better life for themself DO IT IN YOUR HOME COUNTRY
IMPROVE IT, MAKE IT BETTER NOT MINE WORSE.
HOW MANY DO WE TAKE? ONE MORE IS TOO MANY. THIS COUNTRY IS NOT MEANT AS
THE WELFARE NATION TO THE WORLD
END ALL IMMIGRATION FOR 10 YRS.