- 21 Sep 2023 17:36
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The Hill put out an opinion article about how the U.S. has an obligation to take in migrants from Venezuela.
It was written by Democrat U.S. House representative Adriano Espaillat.
We must preserve the American dream for Venezuelans , Opinion, Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), The Hill, September 20, 2023
Let me copy some excerpts:
" We must preserve the American dream for Venezuelans
As a nation founded by immigrants seeking freedom from oppression, the United States of America bears an important and uniquely inherent responsibility to help immigrants obtain refuge from dire situations across the globe. This is especially true for the people of Venezuela, where, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Venezuelan exodus of the past few years represents a quarter of Venezuela's entire population. This constitutes the world’s second-largest refugee crisis, and it has led many Venezuelans to search for refuge here in the United States.
Several prominent cities throughout the U.S. have received this ongoing migration flow from the region. In my home city of New York, we have welcomed over 110,000 new immigrants since the Spring of 2022, and roughly 41 percent of these new arrivals are of Venezuelan descent."
He goes on in the article to argue that the New York needs lots of funding from the federal government to help pay for these migrants and that the migrants should automatically get permits to work as soon as they arrive, instead of having to wait 6 months like current federal law requires.
"Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a program that allows all immigrants from specific countries, as designated by the DHS, who are experiencing armed conflict or other extraordinary circumstances to receive temporary protection from deportation in the United States."
So he wants the Biden Administration to use its executive power to treat all the migrants fleeing Venezuela as if they were special refugees fleeing political persecution.
"As Americans, our obligation to these migrants and their families also goes beyond mere financial considerations--it is moral as well, and redesignating Venezuelan migrants for TPS is simply the right thing to do. The last couple of years has seen hundreds of thousands Venezuelan migrants--often families with children--cross rivers, scale mountains, and traverse the dangerous "Darien Gap" in Panama to reach safety in the U.S. To treat these migrants, who have traveled thousands of miles to live and work here, with anything other than the utmost compassion would be to disrespect the American dream. Allowing newly arrived Venezuelan migrants the ability to work, support their families, and live without fear of deportation via a TPS redesignation is an easy way for the DHS to help cities better address the current influx of migrants and help us remember who we are as Americans. Venezuelan families just want to put a roof over their heads and live safely. Is that too much to ask?"
I find it highly ironic that people in the Left would be telling the U.S. they have an obligation to take in migrants, when what those migrants are fleeing from are disastrous political Left Socialist policies, which have ruined the economy of that country.
Does this Left-leaning Democrat mean that, "to preserve the American dream for Venezuelans", Americans should make sure the U.S. never falls into totalitarian Socialism, like Venezuela has?
Immigrants keep coming from other impoverished and troubled parts of the world, but how long until all those immigrants make the U.S. become just like all those other troubled countries the immigrants originally fled from in the first place?
It was written by Democrat U.S. House representative Adriano Espaillat.
We must preserve the American dream for Venezuelans , Opinion, Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), The Hill, September 20, 2023
Let me copy some excerpts:
" We must preserve the American dream for Venezuelans
As a nation founded by immigrants seeking freedom from oppression, the United States of America bears an important and uniquely inherent responsibility to help immigrants obtain refuge from dire situations across the globe. This is especially true for the people of Venezuela, where, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Venezuelan exodus of the past few years represents a quarter of Venezuela's entire population. This constitutes the world’s second-largest refugee crisis, and it has led many Venezuelans to search for refuge here in the United States.
Several prominent cities throughout the U.S. have received this ongoing migration flow from the region. In my home city of New York, we have welcomed over 110,000 new immigrants since the Spring of 2022, and roughly 41 percent of these new arrivals are of Venezuelan descent."
He goes on in the article to argue that the New York needs lots of funding from the federal government to help pay for these migrants and that the migrants should automatically get permits to work as soon as they arrive, instead of having to wait 6 months like current federal law requires.
"Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a program that allows all immigrants from specific countries, as designated by the DHS, who are experiencing armed conflict or other extraordinary circumstances to receive temporary protection from deportation in the United States."
So he wants the Biden Administration to use its executive power to treat all the migrants fleeing Venezuela as if they were special refugees fleeing political persecution.
"As Americans, our obligation to these migrants and their families also goes beyond mere financial considerations--it is moral as well, and redesignating Venezuelan migrants for TPS is simply the right thing to do. The last couple of years has seen hundreds of thousands Venezuelan migrants--often families with children--cross rivers, scale mountains, and traverse the dangerous "Darien Gap" in Panama to reach safety in the U.S. To treat these migrants, who have traveled thousands of miles to live and work here, with anything other than the utmost compassion would be to disrespect the American dream. Allowing newly arrived Venezuelan migrants the ability to work, support their families, and live without fear of deportation via a TPS redesignation is an easy way for the DHS to help cities better address the current influx of migrants and help us remember who we are as Americans. Venezuelan families just want to put a roof over their heads and live safely. Is that too much to ask?"
I find it highly ironic that people in the Left would be telling the U.S. they have an obligation to take in migrants, when what those migrants are fleeing from are disastrous political Left Socialist policies, which have ruined the economy of that country.
Does this Left-leaning Democrat mean that, "to preserve the American dream for Venezuelans", Americans should make sure the U.S. never falls into totalitarian Socialism, like Venezuela has?
Immigrants keep coming from other impoverished and troubled parts of the world, but how long until all those immigrants make the U.S. become just like all those other troubled countries the immigrants originally fled from in the first place?