… there were gang members that had received TPS simply because of the nation they came from and the time in which they came. It became so big and so massive. The overwhelming majority of Venezuelans are not members of trained at agua, but there were trained at agua and other criminal elements embedded in the TPS system. And the numbers were so large that the administration felt it had to cancel the program in order to appropriately vet it through on the individual case. Excuse me, Mr. Secretary. (1:45:10–1:45:18)
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Asserts that criminal elements were embedded in the TPS system for Venezuelans.
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