The Biden-Harris administration has decided not to extend the temporary legal status for more than 100,000 Venezuelans brought into the country under a 2022 policy meant to reduce illegal border crossings by flying potential illegal aliens into the country with taxpayer funds.
CBS News reported Friday that it had acquired internal documents showing that the Biden administration intends to allow the temporary legal status granted under the 2022 policy to expire.
The Biden-Harris administration decided in October 2022 to stem the flow of illegal immigrants from Venezuela by allowing those same people to fly directly into the U.S. as part of a taxpayer-funded program.
The Venezuelan illegal aliens were then flown, bussed, or transported on their on accord throughout the interior of the U.S.
A person living in the U.S. could sponsor an immigrant from Venezuela, allowing the immigrant to remain in the country legally on immigration parole for two years.
The Biden administration extended the policy in January 2023, applying it to immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua as well.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported that roughly 530,000 immigrants entered the country under the policy, including 117,000 Venezuelans.
As the two years of parole come to an end for the first wave of foreign nationals brought into the U.S. under the policy, the Biden Administration will apparently not renew their status.
It’s not clear, however, whether the foreign nationals who were flown to the U.S. under the Biden-Harris program will be expected to self-deport or will be removed by the U.S. government now that their temporary legal status has expired.
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Venezuelans with expiring parole may not face any consequences if they refuse to apply for a different status or leave the country.
Many of the parolees may be eligible to stay under a 2023 decision from the Biden-Harris administration to grant temporary protected status to 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. as of July 31, 2023.
Those Venezuelans are exempt from deportation and are permitted to work in the U.S.
Officials currently have little power to remove the Venezuelans brought in by the Biden administration, even when they become eligible for deportation. That’s because, since February, the Venezuelan government has refused to accept any deportations from the U.S.
The document acquired by CBS did not specify what will happen when parole expires for immigrants from countries other than Venezuela who were flown in under the policy.
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Venezuelan nationals made headlines in recent months after investigative journalist James O’Keefe unveiled a U.S. Army report detailing the activities of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA).
The report showed that TdA gang members infiltrated New York City and received authorization to attack law enforcement.
The same gang took over the Aspen Grove apartment complex in Littleton, Colorado.
A video emerged of gang members taking control of another Colorado apartment building after Aspen Grove was shut down.
TdA members also took over the Gateway Hotel in El Paso, Texas.
It is unclear whether any of those gang members flew into the U.S. as part of President Biden’s border policy.
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Good luck getting them out of here !
Unless you hunt them down they will never leave.
Kamala will grant them citizenship …..millions and millions of new illiterate voters .
Bye Bye social security. Bye Bye Medicare Bye Bye America .
Trump will get them out .
Give us a Republican house and Republican senate ..
Trump will get them out .