Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
The man who told federal agents he would never set foot in Haiti again is back in Haiti.
Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles spent 19 months in federal custody after a viral January 2025 ICE arrest in Boston.
Last Thursday he was loaded onto a removal flight out of Louisiana. Sources told Fox News he was combative aboard the aircraft and made crude, profane threats toward President Trump and his family on the way home.
? LMFAO! This Haitian illegal alien is being mocked nationwide after he got DEPORTED despite yelling at federal agents "I'm NOT going back to Haiti" in 2025
"Thank Obama for everything he did for me!" ?
The thug was UNRULY on the deportation flight back to Haiti, and the... pic.twitter.com/iCTQmDVxev
Good riddance.
Fox cameras were there when ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations grabbed him on January 22, 2025, days into Trump's second term.
Charles shouted, "I'm not going back to Haiti ... you feel me?" Then: "F-- Trump." Then: "Biden forever bro."
Coverage of the same clip also recorded him thanking Obama "for everything he did for me." He was 25. He had already piled up more than 17 Massachusetts convictions in a two-year stretch.
DHS identifies Charles as a member of the Back Block Money Gang. Between August 2022 and August 2024 his convictions included assault and battery on a public employee, resisting arrest, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, drug possession and trafficking, carrying brass knuckles, possessing a firearm and ammunition without permits, and trespassing.
ICE had already tried. Officers issued a detainer after a 2023 arrest. The Norfolk House of Correction released him in October 2023 without honoring it. He stayed on the street in a sanctuary jurisdiction until Trump-era ICE came back for him.
A Department of Justice immigration judge signed a final order of removal on November 7, 2025. Charles then ran every appeal and delay available. That is why a man with a gang affiliation and a two-year crime binge sat in custody for 19 months instead of leaving in weeks.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said: "This illegal alien gang member from Haiti had quite the rap sheet, with convictions for assault and battery on a public employee, resisting arrest, and drug trafficking, among other heinous crimes. He went viral for praising Biden as he was getting arrested, because he knew that the Biden Administration's open borders turned America into a paradise for criminals like him."
"The Trump Administration has finally done what both the Obama and Biden Administrations failed to do and deported this criminal back where he belongs," he added.
The White House put it more bluntly: "This gang member and criminal illegal alien loved Obama, Biden, and open-border Democrats who let him enter our country with TPS and allowed him to terrorize American citizens. Thanks to the Trump administration, he is now off our streets and back in Haiti."
Charles first came in July 2013 under Obama and received Temporary Protected Status. USCIS later revoked that TPS in 2022. Biden-era enforcement never finished the job.
TPS for Haitians started after the 2010 earthquake as a short-term shelter. Successive administrations kept rolling it forward until hundreds of thousands were living and working in the United States as if the designation were a settlement program. In late 2025 DHS terminated protections for roughly 353,000 Haitians, stating the designation no longer served U.S. national interests.
Stephen Miller was explicit after the Supreme Court cleared the path to end the designation. "The illegal alien Haitians are going back to Haiti. They can build their country there." He also said the Biden-era extensions turned a disaster-relief tool into a pipeline into American towns.
That is the policy Charles ran into. The T in TPS stands for temporary. Courts delayed. Activist litigation delayed. He still went.
As weekly removal flights to Cap-Haïtien ramped up, national outlets framed the story around children on planes and long-settled workers "dumped" into a violent country. They spent far less time on the gang members, sex offenders, and repeat assailants ICE has put on those aircraft.
Charles is the case they prefer not to lead with: a man who thanked Obama, cursed Trump on camera, collected 17 convictions, threatened the president's family on the jet, and still consumed a year and a half of detention beds and court time.
The broader numbers are moving in the same direction. Center for Immigration Studies analysis of Census data shows the foreign-born population falling for the first time in a century - about 2.3 million illegal immigrants gone since January 2025, plus hundreds of thousands of legal exits, for a total drop near 2.9 million.
Formal removals and self-deportations both rose after interior enforcement tightened and TPS expansions were shut down.
In the lame-duck window, Biden officials drafted a plan to stretch TPS into a de facto shield for more than three million people from a list of countries, hoping to bury the next administration in litigation.
Sen. Eric Schmitt later called it an attempt to "keep millions of illegal aliens in our country by abusing the 'Temporary' Protected Status program" and "mass amnesty-by-decree" after voters had already chosen the opposite.
Charles is one data point inside that fight. Obama let him in. A sanctuary jail cut him loose. Biden-era policy left him in place after TPS was pulled.
Trump-era ICE arrested him immediately. The courts let him stall. The plane still left Louisiana.
Mass deportations only work if the last appeal is not a lifetime lease. Miller said they all go back. This one did - yelling the whole way.
Tyler Durden Thu, 09/17/2026 - 13:45Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times,
The former minister of industry for Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro's regime pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a global money laundering conspiracy that skimmed millions from a Venezuelan public welfare program.
Colombian businessman Alex Saab (L) leaves after a meeting with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (R) at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on Dec. 20, 2023. Federico Parra/AFPAccording to a Department of Justice (DOJ) news release, Alex Saab, 54, who was extradited from Venezuela in May and charged days later, conducted a decade-long scheme that defrauded a Venezuelan welfare program for food and medicine, netting hundreds of millions of dollars for himself and associates.
Saab, a Colombian businessman, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder monetary instruments before federal district Judge Kathleen Williams in Miami. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years.
"Criminals like Alex Saab who stole from the people of Venezuela and worked to exploit and misuse American financial institutions to fund illicit activities will be held accountable," FBI Director Kash Patel said in the news release.
Saab is accused of bilking the welfare program known as Local Committee for Supply and Production, or CLAP (Comité Local de Abastecimiento y Producción).
The ex-minister admitted to using a system of bribes and illegal payments to public officials. Entities controlled by conspirators in the scheme would be rewarded with lucrative contracts from the Venezuelan government to import food and medicine under CLAP.
Saab and his conspirators did not fulfill the contracts and would instead use fake companies, false invoices and shipping records, and other fraudulent documents to unlawfully obtain millions while concealing their association with the scheme, the DOJ said.
Saab further admitted he used shell companies outside his country to launder the illegal proceeds around the world, including in the United States.
DOJ Assistant Attorney General Andrew Duva said Saab exploited the American financial system to profit off Venezuelans, creating a "complex web of front companies, shell accounts, and false records to perpetuate his scheme."
Saab previously was in U.S. custody until former President Joe Biden released him in December 2023 as part of a prisoner swap with Venezuela. The deal included the Venezuelan regime's release of 30 prisoners, including 10 Americans.
"The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela celebrates with joy the liberation and return to his homeland of our diplomat Alex Saab, who until today was unjustly kidnapped in a U.S. jail," the Venezuelan government said following the prisoner-swap deal.
Saab was removed from his position earlier this year by acting leader Delcy Rodríguez, who previously served as Maduro's vice president until he was captured by U.S. forces in an overnight raid on Caracas in January.
Saab was initially charged in July 2019 on money laundering counts.
He was detained about a year later in the Republic of Cabo Verde at the request of the U.S. government and was eventually extradited to American custody.
"President Biden granted Alex Saab clemency while he was awaiting trial in [Miami], and Saab was released from federal custody and returned to Venezuela. But that was not the end of the story," said U.S. Attorney Jason Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida.
Quiñones's office secured a new indictment against Saab in January 2026, and by May he was back in Miami federal court.
The South Florida attorney added that this case sends a clear message: "Political connections, wealth, and proximity to a corrupt regime will not put anyone beyond the reach of American justice."
The DOJ did not disclose Tuesday how much Saab was accused of stealing, but when he was initially in U.S. custody, he was suspected of siphoning $350 million from Venezuela and laundering it through the United States.
A sentencing date has not yet been set.
Saab's attorneys did not respond to a request for comment at the time of publication.
Tyler Durden Thu, 09/17/2026 - 13:05