Criminal Aliens Released in U.S. “Committing Crimes Against Americans at An Alarming Rate”

Of the millions of illegal immigrants who have entered the United States under the Biden administration’s radical open border policies, over 617,000 have criminal records and they are victimizing Americans and terrorizing communities throughout the nation. “The consequences are dire, with illegal aliens committing crimes against Americans at an alarming rate,” according to a report published by the House Judiciary Committee. “The Biden-Harris Administration’s radical policies ensure that criminal illegal aliens can remain in the United States indefinitely, even after they have committed a crime.” The document focuses on the cases of four illegal immigrants from Venezuela who viciously attacked a man on a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train earlier this year. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released one of the men inside the U.S. in 2022 and the other three in 2023 after crossing the Mexican border. Three of the men were on pretrial release after shoplifting arrests when they committed their most recent crime in the Windy City.

In February, the Venezuelan migrants—Yonnier Jose Guasamucare-Garcia, Carlos Luis Carreno-Carreno, Johandry Fernando Loyo-Rodriguez, and Wilker Miguel Gutierrez Sierra—were arrested in connection with a “violent knifepoint attack” on a 49-year-old man riding a CTA train on a Saturday afternoon. The victim was put into a “vicious chokehold” that left him unconscious and was robbed of money and a cellphone. The four illegal aliens listed their home address as state-funded migrant shelters when they got arrested. A local news station reported that the perpetrators were 18 to 22 years old and quoted a public defender confirming that at the time they were “all staying in area shelters.” One of the Venezuelans entered the U.S. under a special program for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) that has welcomed nearly half a million migrants under the age of 18 in the last few years. As of July 2, 2024, three of the Venezuelan criminals remained in the custody of Chicago law enforcement officials, but one was released with an electronic monitoring device.

Files obtained by federal lawmakers reveal that Guasamucare-Garcia entered the U.S. in Eagle Pass, Texas on September 18, 2022, as a UAC and claimed to have an uncle in Houston. He was released to a sponsor and about a year later was arrested in Chicago for retail theft. Less than a year later Carreno-Carreno also crossed into the U.S. in the Eagle Pass area and “claimed a credible fear of return to his home country.” He was released on his own recognizance with a Notice to Appear (NTA) in Chicago immigration court on May 20, 2026. A few months later he was arrested in Chicago for shoplifting. Loyo-Rodriguez also entered the U.S. near Eagle Pass in July 2023, the records show. He voluntarily walked back to Mexico after a U.S. asylum officer told him about a special parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans that required him to leave and apply via the CBP One app, though he never did and instead about a month later crossed the border near El Paso. His file says that Border Patrol determined he was “likely to abscond,” but the agency released him into the country anyway. A few months later Loyo-Rodriguez was arrested in Chicago for shoplifting. Gutierrez Sierra was encountered by Border Patrol near El Paso in late September of 2023. He was released inside the country “due to lack of space” and was given an NTA in a Houston immigration court on January 24, 2024.

The Venezuelans’ case helps illustrate the real-world consequences for American citizens of the Biden-Harris immigration policies, the House Judiciary Committee points out, adding that the effect of those polices will be felt for years to come. “For more than three-and-a-half years, President Joe Biden and “border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris have orchestrated the largest mass release of illegal aliens into the country in American history,” the congressional panel writes. “Well over 7 million illegal aliens are now in the United States because of the Biden-Harris Administration’s radical immigration policies. The results are all too predictable: cities overwhelmed, public services crushed, and communities shattered by the criminality of some illegal aliens.”