Biden Grants Protections for Venezuelans to Remain in U.S.
Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans can temporarily continue to live and work in the United States as the administration considers its next steps in the effort to force out Venezuela’s president.
The announcement shows that President Biden will make at least some use of temporary protective status, which his predecessor had sought to strip from hundreds of thousands of immigrants.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
Published March 8, 2021Updated March 10, 2021
WASHINGTON — As many as 320,000 Venezuelans living in the United States were given an 18-month reprieve on Monday from the threat of being deported, as the Biden administration sought to highlight how dangerous that country has become under President Nicolás Maduro.