Originally published by Orinocotribune.com.
The United States government has started to apply its new immigration policy, with which it will deport Venezuelan migrants to Colombia without allowing them to apply for asylum.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Venezuelans will be deported to Colombia.
The US authorities also added that the deportation of migrants will be carried out on a regular basis, although they did not specify how often.
The first two Venezuelans were expelled within this policy last Thursday, January 27. They had entered the United States through the US-Mexico border, but were sent to Colombia on a commercial flight.
The US government is implementing this measure through a controversial public health order, known as Title 42, which has been in place since March 2020 when the pandemic started.
Under Title 42, US authorities can detain Venezuelans at the southern border and then can quickly expel them, without giving them the opportunity to submit an asylum application.
Since March 2020, the United States has been expelling migrants at the Mexico border under Title 42. The order is named after a public law from 1944, which was invoked in 2020 to implement health policies to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The director of migratory affairs of the International Rescue Committee, Olga Byrne has criticized the measure, considering it harmful since it sends people to dangerous conditions.
“The Title 42 removals deprive asylum seekers of due process and instead sends them back to similar, if not worse, dangerous situation,” said Byrne.
Colombia’s complicity with the US
The DHS claimed that the expulsion of Venezuelans to Colombia had already been discussed with the Colombian government last December.
At that time, the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Colombia had announced that a meeting had been held between the two countries to discuss the deportation of Venezuelans. Colombian authorities had claimed that this was a possibility, but that they would only accept those with their paperwork in order.
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Originally published by Orinocotribune.com.
Author: Orinoco Tribune
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why would they even want to come here.
Not only that… why do WE have to take everyone in! We can’t even take care of ourselves
Cloward & Piven. People fed falsehoods by Elites to be used to bring a country to ruin.
Because their socialist President Maduro has them starving and without medications. Armed robbers stop school buses and rob children’s lunches. We support 52 families there monthly. They can’t vote him out of office because the elections are rigged. No gas to travel. No money to buy gas. Can’t wear jewelry or carry cell phones in public–they are robbed.
My husband (deceased) was a resident of Venezuela. I have family there. I was there when Venezuela was the jewel of South America, a second-world nation amid third world.
I revisited the country as it was sliding into decay. People are skinny on the “Maduro diet”. Houses crumbling. Businesses shuttered. Maduro appointed inept friends to run the oil industry and refineries. They ran them into the ground. They had concentrated on oil and neglected agriculture. Now they suffer.
I don’t agree with socialism either Peggy but there’s more to this story because Venezuela’s economy has been crippled by US sanctions and an onslaught of fake news from the US and UK news media.
Be blessed and covered by the blood of Christ.His manifestations be upon you a ND the work you do for Him.