Although not all Venezuelans will benefit from the recently announced Temporary Protected Status (TPS) granted by the Biden administration, many who continue...
“We had to leave or we were going to get killed,” said Cuevas, 40. “So we decided to get in touch with some acquaintances in Dallas. We packed our stuff, said goodbye to our family, and we told our youngest daughters that we were going on vacation and would be back soon.”They arrived in the U.S. after turning themselves to immigration authorities on Jan. 1 at the border entry point in San Luis, Ariz., which borders San Luis Río Colorado in the Mexican state of Sonora.
Cuevas and his wife were high school teachers in Venezuela and co-owned an industrial recycling business. He said decided to leave the country after they were threatened for refusing to pay “monthly fees” to the military. Pereira said she increasingly hears stories from Venezuelans who traveled by land to get to the U.S.-Mexico border and surrendered to immigration authorities., during the 2021 fiscal year, there were 48,678 encounters of Venezuelan migrants at the border with Mexico, compared to 2,787 encounters the previous year.“It’s very different;” how they travel now, Pereira said. “Venezuelans would travel with their visas, enter the country legally, and simply stay here.
“They still haven’t approved me I’ve only received two letters where they’ve told me they’re working on my case, but they don’t say if they accepted or denied me,” said Argüelles.
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