The Democrat asked the president to reconsider and grant the same opportunities as the program implemented to Ukrainian refugees.
Courtesy | He congratulated the Biden Administration for seeking new legal paths for Venezuelans, however, he criticized the measures
Senator Bob Menéndez asked the president of the United States this Thursday to reconsider and not deport Venezuelan migrants who enter irregularly through the southern border, following the Department of Homeland Security announced that those Venezuelans who “try to cross the border illegally southern border of the United States will be returned to Mexico and will not be eligible for this process in the future.”
The president of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee congratulated the Biden Administration for seeking new legal paths for Venezuelans, however, he criticized the expulsion measures to Mexico.
“I cannot support any program that creates additional requirements for Venezuelans while combining with an unjustifiable expansion of Trump’s Title 42 deportation program. Expanding Title 42 to include Venezuelans now adds insult to injury while further deteriorating our asylum system that President Biden promised he would restore.”
For this reason, the Democrat asked the president to reconsider and grant the same opportunities as the program implemented to Ukrainian refugees.
“I hope that the Biden Administration will reconsider and reconsider removing more Venezuelans under Title 42 and instead give Venezuelan refugees fleeing Maduro the same opportunities that were rightly afforded to Ukrainians fleeing Putin.”
“Unlike the Ukrainians, this program creates an automatic disqualification for any Venezuelan who has risked his life to first find temporary refuge in Panama and Mexico. Under this new scheme, more Venezuelans will be expelled from the US under Title 42 than will be eligible to stay and receive humanitarian aid. That is why the administration should rather continue with its original goal of ending Title 42 once and for all in the courts, redesignating TPS for Venezuelans in the United States, and more importantly, expanding the process of refugee resettlement for Venezuelans so they have permanent protections in the United States.”
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