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Editorial: The US must keep Venezuela in check

A Venezuelan migrant is led onto a bus at St. Andrews Episcopal Church on Sept. 16, 2022, in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. A group of 48 migrants was flown to the island from Texas earlier this week, leaving them stranded. They are now being transferred to a military base in Cape Cod.

You might have missed the news late last month announcing the death at age 78 of Gustavo Cisneros. He was the wealthy co-founder of TV network Univision and an advocate of free enterprise who controlled a baseball team and a beauty pageant, among other valuable assets.

Cisneros died in New York, but he was a native of Venezuela, just like the 20,000-plus migrants who have flooded into Chicago since 2022 — upending the administration of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and creating scenes of despair on the city's streets

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