The Biden White House is facing intense pressure from congressional Democrats to extend immigration protections to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan exiles currently living in the United States.
Against a Monday deadline, 22 Democratic Senators are pushing for an estimated 250,000 Venezuelans to receive Temporary Protected Status so they may remain in the country despite arrived after the March 2021 eligibility cutoff date, Politico reported .
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro prompted a flood of emigration from the country after crushing legitimate elections and enforcing socialist economic policies that have seen the country’s citizens fall into extreme poverty. The United Nations estimates […]
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