Migrants Tell Police They Are Committing Crimes in Hopes of Being Sent Back to Venezuela

According to Chicago police, two different migrants have turned to crime in an effort to get sent back to Venezuela.

AP/Marco Ugarte, file
Migrants watch a train go past as they wait along the train tracks hoping to board a freight train heading north at Huehuetoca, Mexico. AP/Marco Ugarte, file

Two migrants arrested for allegedly committing two different crimes tell the Chicago police that they were hoping to get caught so they would be sent back to Venezuela.

First reported by CWB Chicago, in a Chicago Police Department arrest report, one migrant, Dhian Gomez-Mendoza, said that he “will do whatever it takes if that is beating up a police officer or hurting a civilian, he will do it.”

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