The Homeland Security Department plans to grant Temporary Protected Status to an estimated 472,000 Venezuelans who arrived in the country as of July 31.
US President Joe Biden announces the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, September 22, 2023. — The Biden administration says it's granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country — quickly making them eligible to work — as it grapples with growing numbers of people fleeing the South American country and elsewhere to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The protections for Venezuelans are significant because they account for such a large number of the migrants who have been arriving in the country in recent years. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas granted the expansion and an 18-month extension for those who already have temporary status due to “Venezuela's increased instability and lack of safety due to the enduring humanitarian, security, political, and environmental conditions,” the department said in a statement.
Mayors and governors have been clamoring for Biden to figure out a way to get newly arrived migrants to be able to work legally, so they can support themselves. The number of migrants trying to cross the southern border is rising. That poses a severe challenge for the administration, which has struggled to show it is in control of the border in the face of Republican criticism. The city of Eagle Pass, which borders Mexico along the Rio Grande in southern Texas, announced a state of emergency Wednesday due to a “severe undocumented immigrant surge.”
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