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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that illegal aliens from Venezuela will be allowed to apply for legal protection after the Biden administration granted them “temporary protected status” due to unlivable circumstances in their home country.
The Associated Press reported that the administration’s move will make an estimated 320,000 Venezuelans — many of whom live in Florida — eligible for legal status. The temporary protected status will last until September of next year, and the administration is also reportedly reconsidering U.S. sanctions on Venezuela.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Venezuela is in “turmoil” and “unable to protect its own citizens.”
“It is in times of extraordinary and temporary circumstances like these that the United States steps forward to support eligible Venezuelan nationals already present here, while their home country seeks to right itself out of the current crises,” Mayorkas commented.
The administration contended that “widespread hunger and malnutrition, a growing influence and presence of non-state armed groups, repression, and a crumbling infrastructure” in the Central American nation rendered it necessary to allow illegal aliens to remain in the states rather than face the specter of deportation.
MATAMOROS, MEXICO - FEBRUARY 24: A Venezuelan asylum seeker waits in a migrant camp for entry into the United States on February 24, 2021 in Matamoros, Mexico. U.S. immigration authorities have begun allowing some asylum seekers with active cases into the U.S. in a reversal of the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" immigration policy. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)