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Venezuela is undergoing a yearslong humanitarian crisis marked by rampant inflation, human rights abuses and dwindling food and supplies. As a result, more than 6 million Venezuelans have left the ...
During the 20th century, "Venezuela was a haven for immigrants fleeing Old World repression and intolerance" according to Newsweek. [2] Emigration began at low rates in 1983 after oil prices collapsed, though the increased rates of emigration, especially the flight of professionals, grew largely following the Bolivarian Revolution which was led by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. [33]
Some Venezuelans can be removed from the U.S. by land — under a 2023 deal, Mexico agreed to take back up to 30,000 migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba monthly.
Additional Ultimate JetCharters flights scheduled to fly migrants from Texas to Delaware were canceled. [16] Initially, the migrants stayed at a St. Andrew's Episcopal Church shelter on Martha's Vineyard. [14] [17] The woman who runs the shelter told NPR, "Everything from beds to food to clothing to toothbrushes, toothpaste, blankets, sheets. I ...
“People who are in the United States who can’t or don’t appeal their cases, and do not request Temporary Protected Status, are the people who have no protections,” said De La Vega. “They ...
Humanitarian Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans is a program under which citizens of these four countries, and their immediate family members, can be paroled into the United States for a period of up to two years if a person in the US agrees to financially support them. The program allows a combined total of 30,000 people ...
CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Some of the Americans who were freed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in a U.S. prisoner swap have landed at a U.S. military base in San Antonio ...
Conflicts eventually lessened months after tensions initially flared in August 2015. By July 2016, the Venezuelan government allowed Venezuelans to traverse into Colombia once again, with hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans taking advantage of the opportunity in order to retrieve food due to shortages in Venezuela. On 12 August 2016, the ...