López Obrador praises the new humanitarian parole for Venezuelans from the US

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, praised the White House initiative to regulate the entry of Venezuelans into the US with the granting of up to 24,000 visas for those migrants who arrive regularly.

“This allowing an orderly flow of Venezuelans who want to be in the United States is giving results,” said the Mexican president on Thursday after praising the new US immigration policy.

“We are noticing it here,” said the president, stressing that it is part of Mexico City’s policy to demand cooperation for development at the regional level.

“If there is work, then we are going to be able to face the migratory phenomenon, because people do not abandon their towns, their families, for pleasure,” he said.

Mexico it is a transit country for hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking asylum in the US.

Obrador’s statements come to light only three weeks after initiative implemented of Washington that will allow at least 24,000 Venezuelans to obtain a visa through an online application and under the protection of a sponsor from the United States.

The arrival of Venezuelans to the southern border of the United States – fleeing the humanitarian crisis in their country – reached levels never seen before, according to reports from the Border Patrol.

The unexpected announcement of the measure left thousands of Venezuelan migrants stranded on the way to the southern border, which resulted in an incident with US border patrol forces, declarations of despair and testimonies of the return to Venezuela of many of those who they looked north as an escape route.

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