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If Venezuelans want to benefit from the new US program, they must wait in Mexico to enter the country legally and by plane. The Joe Biden government announced Wednesday that it will accept 24,000 people of that nationality who arrive by air but will expel the rest.
People who have been expelled from the United States, those who have entered Mexico or Panama illegally after the date of the announcement of this new program will not be able to take part in the program.
“To those who are on the move, I want to say clearly that they stay where they are, that they do not enter Mexico, that they do not try to cross our border with Mexico or they will not be eligible for this legal process that has many benefits,” he said. Telephone Press Conference Blas Nuñez-Neto, Acting Under Secretary for Border Policy and Immigration at the Department of Homeland Security.
This new policy, which seeks to stop the irregular immigration of Venezuelans, includes a work permit. In the last fiscal year from October 1 to September 30, 180,000 Venezuelans entered the US illegally.
State of emergency in New York due to the flood of migrants
Meanwhile, thousands of migrants continue to arrive in buses to New York City, most of them from Texas. A week ago, Mayor Eric Adams had declared a state of emergency in order to deal with the wave of asylum seekers who are being sent from the southern border. According to the mayor, there are more than 17,000 who have arrived since April of this year.
And it is that Republican states like Texas and Florida are sending immigrants to Democratic states as part of a dispute with the government of President Joe Biden.
“Many of them want to come to New York because it is a historically immigrant city. What happens is that Spanish is not spoken as much on the street and they don’t come with the language, they also don’t have a place to sleep. Their situation is very precarious and they come with previous traumas, there are many with psychological problems. They arrive and find themselves in this city that is very expensive and also cannot work because the asylum permit does not allow them to work,” Nicolás Ríos, from Documented, a media outlet that provides information guides for immigrants in New York City, explains to RFI. in which it is detailed where to find food, shelters, health centers and legal help.
