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Nothing will happen. Nothing. The people who come here from Venezuela are not die-hard nationalists or communists. They're apolitical or liberal or reactionary and none of them are going to arm up and inflict pain on the USA.
And if they did it would be according to plan, script, and desires of the Trump admin. They would LOVE an actual, factual terrorist attack or extremist group composed of brown foreigners in the US to be able to expand the brutality and scale of ICE deportations under anti-terrorism auspices and reasons. To fearmonger on the news about the dangerous browns who hold "duel loyalties" or no loyalties to the US.
Plain and simple a country that shrugs off mass shootings weekly would not be shocked or moved to action by a shooting spree by a pissed off Venezuelan who is quickly gunned down. The whole thing would be massaged and spun by the media through a racialized lens to the advantage of the US security state and Trump admin policies. They'd cast the shooter as typical of "their type", call them a drug dealer, terrorist, etc.
There is no long history of religious radicalization and the promise of heaven and paradise for blowing yourself up like there is with Muslims, particularly Arabs thanks to groundwork a century ago by Britain and help from local Wahhabi stooges like Saudi Arabia. For all the conspiracy talk of Cuban hit squads for example in the 60s/70s US there's little actual there there and that was another era with actual radicalized, militant leftist groups and people everywhere. The environment today could not be more different. The very existence of such radicals and blow-back is purely because it suits US interests, they use them as tools for regional destabilization, they use them to divide unity, stir up sectarian tensions, strife, genocide, etc to keep an important part of the earth divided, in chaos and easily controlled or at least prevented from utility to geopolitical adversaries. There has been no Afghanistan (80s one) war to create these groups, no deliberate efforts by the US, no regional partner creating the ideological foundations, supplying arms, propaganda books for children, intelligence networks, etc, etc.
So sorry but I just don't see this happening short of the US deploying to Mexico and starting to openly and sadistically mass murder grandmas and newborns and upload the videos of it to the internet in incredible numbers. And even then, we've seen the level of response to the genocide in Gaza, I don't expect the US to explode or be torn apart at the seams by doing that though it might have a moderate insurgency problem.