Posted on 10/16/2022 9:49:34 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Two years ago, candidate Joe Biden loudly denounced President Donald Trump for immigration policies that inflicted “cruelty and exclusion at every turn,” including toward those fleeing the "brutal" government of socialist Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
Now, with increasing numbers of Venezuelans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border as the Nov. 8 election nears, Biden has turned to an unlikely source for a solution: his predecessor’s playbook.
Biden last week invoked a Trump-era rule known as Title 42 -- which Biden's own Justice Department is fighting in court — to deny Venezuelans fleeing their crisis-torn country the chance to request asylum at the border.
The rule, first invoked by Trump in 2020, uses emergency public health authority to allow the United States to keep migrants from seeking asylum at the border, based on the need to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Under the new Biden administration policy, Venezuelans who walk or swim across America's southern border will be expelled and any Venezuelan who illegally enters Mexico or Panama will be ineligible to come to the United States. But as many as 24,000 Venezuelans will be accepted at U.S. airports, similar to how Ukrainians have been admitted since Russia’s invasion in February.
Mexico has insisted that the U.S. admit one Venezuelan on humanitarian parole for each Venezuelan it expels to Mexico, according to a Mexican official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke condition of anonymity. So if the Biden administration paroles 24,000 Venezuelans to the U.S., Mexico would take no more than 24,000 Venezuelans expelled from the U.S.
The Biden policy marks an abrupt turn for the White House, which just weeks ago was lambasting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, both Republicans, for putting Venezuelan migrants “fleeing political persecution” on buses and planes to Democratic strongholds.
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A separate lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union also is trying to end Title 42, an effort that could render the administration’s proposal useless.
“People have a right to seek asylum – regardless of where they came from, how they arrive in the United States, and whether or not they have family here," said ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt.
Funny how he is not permitting them to come here. Wonder if it is because they won’t increase oil exports to US.
IMHO, this is because it is clear that Venezuelans fleeing believe in democracy and are much more likely to vote conservative. I base that on having lived there for years
anybody notice/know why the FJB isn’t wearing his wedding ring???
But, what about the ones that were sent up to and deported from Martha’s Vineyard, they got visa’s for being “victims of a crime”.
I know it would never happen, especially with clowns like Kemp in governor positions but every Republican Governor should be landing plane loads of them to every ski resort and any other affluent, WHITE, liberal enclave.
In the movie, American Made, they focused on the small airfield in Mena, Arkansas for all that dirt that was going on. I’d be making every one of those small airports look like O’Hare, LAX, Atlanta with the amount of planes that would be landing. Wouldn’t even shut the engines off. Tailgate down, plane empty, take off.
The Venezuelan government doesn’t care about the people fleeing Venezuela. Their attitude is “good riddance”. People leaving Venezuela are not supporters of the Venezuelan government. This does not “punish” those characters in any way.
Biden doesn’t want migrants from communist countries because they tend to vote Republican.
Doesn’t make sense when he just signed an agreement accepting 25,000 Venezuelans!
Nevermind... looks like his deal was to selectively choose which Venezuelans to keep. Instead of taking the desperate ones fleeing the communists it sounds more like he is accepting those the Venezuelan government chooses to get rid of
Probably a pretty sound observation.
Somebody figured it out that Venezuelans escaping their communist hellhole would likely not vote for America becoming a communist hellhole.
It is likely that they won’t vote Democrat.
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