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| Biden Tweaks Venezuela Policies to Aid Maduro Family, Hurt Everybody Else |
| 2022-10-16 |
| [Breitbart] The Biden administration announced Wednesday evening a policy change meant to limit the influx of Venezuelans illegally crossing the border into the United States, currently at an unprecedented level. The sudden attempt to limit the number of Venezuelan refugees — many of whom had earlier fled the horrors of socialism under dictator Nicolás Maduro for other South American countries — comes at a time when the Biden Administration has granted Maduro and his family several concessions, including the liberation of his drug-trafficking nephews. The White House has also repeatedly hinted that it has an interest in importing Venezuelan oil, which would be of great financial benefit to the socialist dictatorship. These acts also go against what Venezuelan Biden supporters were told to espouse during the 2020 presidential campaign. At the time, they tried to convince Venezuelan-Americans and other Hispanics to support Biden claiming that that a prospective Biden presidency — that Maduro “would be afraid” of — would not negotiate with Maduro and instead promote and increase sanctions against the socialist dictator and his regime. The new immigration measures, which will be handled by the Department of Homeland Security, seek to grant 24,000 Venezuelan migrants a legal pathway into the United States while expelling any Venezuelan illegally entering through U.S. borders. Less than a month ago, leftist President Joe Biden expressed that it was “not rational” to deport migrants fleeing from the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The prospective 24,000 beneficiaries heavily contrast with the large influx of Venezuelan migrants illegally crossing the border during 2022. As noted by Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges, 33,000 Venezuelan migrants were reported to have illegally crossed the border during September 2022 alone. The announcement further states that effective immediately, any Venezuelan that illegally enters the United States will be returned to Mexico and will not be eligible to be among the 24,000 potential beneficiaries of the new program. The recently implemented measure is a derivative of the Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) program beginning in April that allows a pathway into the United States for 100,000 Ukrainian citizens fleeing from Russia’s invasion of their country. The Venezuelan migrant crisis is considered the worst migrant crisis in the region by far, and second only to Ukraine’s migrant crisis resulting from Russia’s ongoing invasion of the European country. As of September 2022, over 7.1 million migrants (out of the nation’s estimated 30 million inhabitants) have fled Venezuela according to the R4V platform, a joint effort between the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The platform notes that their records only represent “the sum of Venezuelan refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers reported by host governments,” and, as such, their total does not represent the complete number of Venezuelan migrants spread across all countries, which could be higher. Related: Venezuela: 2022-10-15 Tears, desperation at the border as Venezuelan migrants are deported Venezuela: 2022-10-15 AOC is HECKLED at virtually empty town hall in the Bronx: Protester says she voted to 'start this war in Ukraine' and will push the US to the brink of nuclear war Venezuela: 2022-10-15 'The lowest form of scum': Florida cops arrest seven looters for ransacking homes destroyed by Hurricane Ian Related: Nicolás Maduro: 2022-10-05 Biden Frees Maduro's Cocaine-Trafficking ‘Narco-Nephews' in Venezuela Hostage Swap Nicolás Maduro: 2022-09-19 Venezuela Empties Prisons, Sends Violent Criminals to U.S. Border, Says DHS Report Nicolás Maduro: 2022-03-07 Is Vladimir Putin now caught in a Chinese finger trap? |
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