Two families escaped Venezuela under two different immigration policies. A new Biden program allowed one family get travel approval in a matter of weeks. Another Trump-era program barred another family from seeking asylum in the U.S., deporting her.
to speed up processing at border crossings for Ukrainians who fled after the Russian invasion, gained immediate interest from countless Venezuelans and those in the U.S. who sought to sponsor them.
“To a certain point, this is unjust,” said Juan Fernando Villarreal, Mora’s attorney in Mexico, who with his colleagues at the Resource Center Matamoros have served thousands of Venezuelans who find themselves stuck in Mexico. Before mid-October, Venezuelan migrants for the most part had been able to cross the border and seek protections in the U.S. And because the United States for years has had no formal diplomatic relations with the leftist-populist Venezuelan government, there was no easy legal path for the United States to deport them. Mired in economic, political and social upheaval, Venezuela has seen almost 7 million people — about a quarter of its population — leave since 2014.
“Do you have a plate of food you can give me?” she asked. Her family had only mangoes to eat all day, and her child had just vomited. Jones, a 66-year-old former columnist at the Orange County Register, had a soft spot for immigrants and used to write a column featuring an immigrant every Thanksgiving. For the last couple of years, Lisseth has rented a room in Jones’ home.
Mora, by contrast, had no such support network either in her native land or in what she hopes may become her new home.
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