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President Biden has signed an executive order that will give temporary protected status an estimated 200,000 Venezuelan who have fled to the U.S. to escape the repressive regime of President Nicolas Maduro.
The order, which avoid a longer congressional process, will protect those Venezuelans living in the United States for 18 months, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“The living conditions in Venezuela reveal a country in turmoil, unable to protect its own citizens,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday when the order was signed. “It is in times of extraordinary and temporary circumstances like these that the United States steps forward to support eligible Venezuelan nationals already present here, while their home country seeks to right itself out of the current crisis.”
President Trump opposed the Maduro regime…
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