Biden’s management agreed to accept up to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants at U. S. airports. The U. S. has agreed to accept Venezuelans who enter the U. S. illegally. U. S. Ground Protection, U. S. Officials said Wednesdayand Mexico.
Venezuelans from EffectiveArray who cross the border on foot or swimming will be returned to Mexico under a pandemic rule known as Title 42 Authority, which suspends the right to seek asylum under U. S. and foreign laws on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Any Venezuelan who illegally enters Mexico or Panama after Wednesday will also be eligible to come to the U. S. U. S. as part of the offering.
The offer of EE. UU. de parole for up to 24,000 Venezuelans is based on a program for Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion and will count on Mexico to “maintain in position its parallel but countless effort” to recover Venezuelans who arrive illegally, the Homeland Department said. Security said.
The measures are a reaction to a dramatic increase in migration from Venezuela, which surpassed Guatemala and Honduras in August as the second-largest nationality arriving at the U. S. border after Mexico.
“These moves make it clear that there is a legal and orderly way for Venezuelans to enter the United States, and legal access is the only way,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayankas said. “Those who attempt to illegally cross the southern border of the United States states will be returned to Mexico and will no longer be eligible for this procedure in the future. Those who adhere to the legal procedure will have the opportunity to travel safely to the United States and be eligible for paintings here.
Mexico’s foreign minister said in a statement that “those who seek to enter the United States will be able to do so in a more orderly, safe, regular and humane manner. “The program discourages undocumented crossings that jeopardize the protection of migrants.
In a similar announcement, Homeland Security said it would provide about 65,000 transitory work visas for low-skilled industries, about double the existing annual allowance. At least 20,000 of those transitory visas will be reserved for Haiti and northern Central American countries. .
So far, Mexico has agreed to settle for migrants deported under Title 42 only if they originate from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, in addition to Mexico, resulting in very asymmetric enforcement. The United States has struggled to expel other nationalities because of costs, strained diplomatic relations and other considerations.
Poor relations with the Venezuelan government have meant that Title 42 is almost put into effect. The pandemic rule has been used 2. 3 million times since March 2020, but has only been implemented 2453 times to Venezuelans.
In August, Venezuelans were arrested 25,349 times, 43% more than the 17,652 in July and 4 times more than the 6301 encounters in August 2021, indicating a remarkable demographic shift.
The announcement amounts to a potentially primary expansion of Title 42, even though management has recently tried to end it. Senior officials told reporters they were bound by a federal judge’s ruling in May to keep Title 42 in place.
Venezuelans who do apply online will arrive in the U. S. The U. S. Department of Transportation is being held at an airport, similar to an effort that began in April to admit up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war for periods of up to two years. Usa. The U. S. has admitted tens of thousands of Ukrainians since then, adding only about 17,000 in August.
Venezuelans, like Ukrainians, will have to have a monetary sponsor in the United States.
They also want to find a way to succeed at the États-Unis. Lately there are no legal flights from Venezuela due to U. S. considerations. The U. S. government is concerned with the protection of Venezuela’s aviation industry. The restriction applies to charter and advertising flights.
Venezuelans want to be in Venezuela to be eligible and can come from other countries, management officials said.
It also remains to be seen whether Mexico has limits on the number of Venezuelans it will accept from the United States. Mexico said in its statement that it would “temporarily allow the return of some Venezuelan citizens. “The states are fewer than the number of Venezuelans who crossed the border illegally from Mexico in August alone.
An estimated 6. 8 million Venezuelans have fled their country since the economy collapsed in 2014, most commonly to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. But the relative strength of the U. S. economy is not yet strong. The U. S. pandemic since the COVID-19 pandemic has driven Venezuelan migrants to turn north. The failure of the Biden administration in Title 42 has provided more incentives.
Mexico, under pressure from the U. S. administration,The U. S. imposed air restrictions to restrict Venezuelan migration to the U. S. The U. S. government was launched in January, but many later moved to a damaging address on land that includes Panama’s infamous Darien Gap.
The surge in Venezuelan migration has a major challenge for the governments of the United States, Mexico and Central America and a test of a hemispheric agreement reached in June in Los Angeles for migrant-receiving countries to face the unrest together.
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Associated Press editors Joshua Goodman in Miami and Maria Verza in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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