All Venezuelans have been or will be let into America to stay on asylum or humanitarian claims that presume they are directly fleeing Venezuelan government persecution or face some other imminent danger back home.
Most Venezuelan border crossers have been living for years, safely, happily and prosperously in other countries.
In interviews en route to border crossings, Venezuelans have admitted to me that they only decided to leave their safe lives in those adopted countries because they saw the American government admitting Venezuelans who illegally crossed the southern border.
One of the main grounds for Venezuelans to gain one of these coveted permission slips while still south of the border is a claim for protection from "Targeted or individualized harm." But Neila admitted she'd been living in Ecuador - for all of the past seven years, making a good living managing a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in Quito.
Starting in April, tens of thousands of Venezuelans who came to Mexico's northern border began abandoning the lines and illegally crossing to turn themselves in again, after discovering the Americans would process many right in without the humanitarian permit and not send them back under Title 42.
Last year some Venezuelans living in the South American diaspora decided to head for the border after President Biden granted Temporary Protected Status to 300,000 Venezuelans who'd already entered over the border and were living in America illegally.
Many Venezuelans are crossing the border for better opportunities, not a humanitarian crisis.
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