The U.S. government has enacted a new 'parole program' to grant successful applicants a two-year stay in the U.S. But, according to HRW, this change in policy has been used to turn back displaced Venezuelans at land borders. DW's SonyaDiehn explores.
A recent policy change has the US turning Venezuelan asylum-seekers away at land borders, although officials say a limited "parole program" will help. As rights groups decry the change, Venezuelans are stuck in limbo.Pedro Mora left Venezuela at age 18 and had already been living outside of the country for four years when he set off from Colombia for a journey toward a new life in the United States on September 17.
"When we arrived, I took off my boots because my legs were hurting," Mora said,"and only then I noticed how my legs were completely scratched up, swollen, that I had lost a nail." "And as we walked off the bridge, a man with a Mexican accent said, 'What are you doing here?' And we looked up and saw the Mexican flag."
Although anyone has the right to claim asylum, the US has used Title 42 to turn back displaced people at land bordersMattiace called the provision, which remains in effect long after the US reopened to international travelers and most other pandemic measures have been dropped, merely a pretense to shut down legal pathways to the United States.
When he left Venezuela in 2018, Mora said, the crisis was so acute that all the money he earned went toward food. He fled to Chile, where he worked as a parking attendant. By this September he had finally saved enough to undertake the journey north, flying to Bogota, Colombia, to set out.The Biden administration change in policy on October 12 includes an"orderly way for Venezuelans to enter the United States" under a"" that grants successful applicants a two-year stay.
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