Venezuelan migrants turn themselves in to the Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on July 20, 2023. David Peinado Romero/Anadolu/Getty Images/File

When President Donald Trump has been asked about the reason he’s pressuring Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to step down and threatening military action against the country, he consistently blames the South American leader for two things: drugs and migrants.

“We just have to take care of Venezuela. They dumped hundreds of thousands of people into our country from prisons,” Trump told reporters last month in the Oval Office, though there’s no evidence migrants from Venezuela disproportionately served prison time.

As the Trump administration continues its strikes on alleged drug vessels at sea, the pres

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