The United States government, which since October 12, began to expel Venezuelans who entered without documents through its border with MexicoHe reported that From this Tuesday, October 18, it will begin to receive online applicationsfor those who wish to benefit from their new immigration program.
If it comes to words, Humanitarian or Significant Public Benefit Leave for persons outside the United Stateswhich was put into practice since the middle of last week, with which the Joe Biden government now prevents the entry of people through the southern border.
The person in charge of border policy of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Blas Nuñez-Neto, said that the process begins with applications via the web.
Venezuelan migration that avails itself of parole must have a sponsor on US soil, someone who is financially solvent and can receive those who wish to join this initiative.
Parole criticism
From human rights organizations and especially those dedicated to migration issues, they have questioned this policy of the White House, since by expelling hundreds of Venezuelans fleeing the crisis in their country from their territory, it prevents them from obtaining asylum. .
“This puts Venezuelans in danger at the mercy of the Venezuelan regime’s inefficient, corrupt, near-collapsed process to obtain passports,” Wola Defense and Border Surveillance Program Coordinator Adam Isacson said of part of the requirements. .
He shared a tweet from the United States embassy in Guatemala, where it is noted that one of the requirements is to have a valid passport at the time of registration on the website of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (Uscis in English) , which belongs to DHS.
The people, once they complete the registration, and the United States approves the sponsor, must travel by air. The process will continue online and they will request other requirements such as complying with the complete vaccination schedule against COVID-19, among others.
“The travel authorization process will be completely online … if you are selected you will obtain an authorization that will allow you to travel to the United States without a visa,” the DHS official said.
Only 24,000 Venezuelans will be allowed to enter, a figure that falls short of the more than 150,000 who have entered the United States since October of last year.
Who can be sponsors
Núñez-Neto clarified that the sponsors can be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or favored with asylum or Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
Those who are elected, he said, will be able to apply at the end of their two-year permit to other immigration benefits or protections such as asylum.
The humanitarian situation that Venezuela is experiencing and that has led more than 7 million Venezuelans to flee in just over five years, is one of the aspects that the US authorities will have in their sights to review the new process.
what about the deportees
The National Institute of Migration of Mexico, in conjunction with the United States Border Patrolwarned that those who try to cross the border will not be able to do so, despite the presence of a caravan, made up of Venezuelans, who were trying to reach the Rio Grande.
At least a hundred, left in front of a shelter that does not work on weekends, was transferred to Mexico City by immigration authorities in that country.
Dressed in a cotton T-shirt and sports pants, given to him by the US authorities during the six days he was detained at five checkpoints, where he claimed he slept on the floor, Enmanuel Colombo, a 34-year-old Venezuelan migrant, stated that “a I cannot return to Venezuela because in reality I was left at zero, without any job or way to exercise my profession as an industrial mechanic.”
Colombo said that while he is doing the immigration paperwork to return to the United States, he will look for a job in Mexico to send money to his wife and three children he left behind in the Venezuelan town of Turmero, Aragua state. “I need to give stability to my family because I sold my house to come to the United States, and I left them on the street“, accurate.
Countries like Guatemala began this weekend to restrict the passage of migrants and began a process to expel them to Honduras, after the United States announced the parole.
With information from VOA