Venezuela Exodus Set to Top 5 Million as Long-Term Needs Grow, Officials Say

US News ^ | 1/23/19 | STEPHANIE NEBEHAY

[Libloather]

GENEVA (Reuters) - The exodus of Venezuelans is on track to reach 5 million people, as pressure grows on neighboring countries to provide them with long-term support, United Nations and European Union officials said on Wednesday.

Some 4.5 million refugees and migrants have fled Venezuela since 2015, according to official figures, but more are using illegal crossing points because they lack identity papers, said Eduardo Stein, joint special representative of the U.N. refugee and migration agencies.

The crisis has worsened since the United States imposed sanctions, including on the pivotal oil industry, in an effort to oust leftist President Nicolas Maduro in favor of opposition leader Juan Guaido. Dozens of nations recognize Guaido as interim president, saying Maduro rigged a 2018 election.

Roughly 5,000 people leave Venezuela daily, although the number fluctuates as more states require visas, Stein said.

[Libloather]

All because of one socialist idiot. Another headline online - the water system is collapsing.

[joma89]

This is America’s future if leftists take over our federal government.

JoMa

[Cronos]

More than One - besides Chavo, you have Maduro, the entire state apparatus behind them and the folks that voted for their socialist policies

[OttawaFreeper]

Maybe Mikey can put up a few at one of his fancy, expensive properties.

[pepsionice]

People should remember Maduro’s primary job in life...as a bus-driver-turned-Dictator.

Would make a great movie script.

[rrrod]

Putin will help his buddy, Maduro..

[Truth29]

Democrat dream. If the Dem coup plotters and their Republican fellow travelers remove Trump, this is the hill to die on. Stop them or become slaves.

[Cronos]

Driving Miss Daisy.... off a cliff?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Has any news media outlet reported that Maduro has expropriated the lands of the Germans who settled Colonia Tovar in Venezuela beginning in 1843 and illegal immigrants from there have been caught trying to cross the Texas border? Hmmmm? The media here IS the enemy.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Which will entail taking of people's property. Here's a good article on Colonia Tovar back when things were better:

Click here

[FLvoter]

Dang man, there were only about 28 million there to begin with.

[HotHunt]

The UN just placed Venezuela on their human rights commission.

Proof positive that the UN is a club for dictators, despots and tyrants from around the world.

[combat_boots]

Venezuela, where monthly income for people can be $3.00.

I follow the cat guy there. Amazing work he’s doing.

[polymuser]

Watch border claims of being a refugee from Venezuela skyrocket.

[faucetman]

Hurry up, FINISH THE WALL.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Well you can bet they won’t be voting Dem they did that once and have learned their lesson the hard way!! Cuban immigrants vote Republican they KNOW they lived it!!!

[cookcounty]

Bernie’s home state of Vermont is the whitest state in the union, they need some diversity, and Bernie’s wife has an empty college campus that could house quite a few Venezuelan refugees.

Maybe Bern could take the actual socialists from Venezuela into Vermont so that the leftist-afflicted country could get back to real life instead of living the socialist dream.

.....But then Trump would have to build a wall around Vermont.