Venezuelans are the fastest-growing Hispanic group in the country as millions flee repression, food scarcity and economic turmoil. Nearly 10,400 Venezuelans live in Utah.
When the U.S. COVID-19 Public Health Emergency ends Thursday, so too will all pandemic-era restrictions, including Title 42, which prevented many asylum seekers from crossing the Mexican border.
Utah officials expect to see an increase in migrants coming to the state with the end of a pandemic-era immigration policy but do not have an estimate of how large of an increase may materialize.
Utah’s Venezuelan community is speaking out against the Utah attorney general’s decision to join 19 other Republican states in suing the Biden administration to halt its humanitarian parole program for migrants.
Utah s Venezuelan community says Utah s decision to sue to halt a humanitarian parole plan makes no sense since it has been successful and decreased border encounters.