The Biden administration on Wednesday offered nearly half-a-million Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. the ability to live and work in the country legally, approving a longstanding request from cities struggling to house asylum-seekers.

The Department of Homeland Security expanded, or redesignated, the Temporary Protected Status program for Venezuelan migrants, allowing recent arrivals to apply for the deportation protections and work permits offered by the policy. CBS News first reported the move earlier Wednesday.

Previously, only Venezuelans who arrived in the U.S. before March 2021 qualified for TPS, a program created by Congress in 1990 to offer a temporary safe haven to migrants from countries facing humanitarian crises, such as an armed conflict or a natural disaster.

By redesignating Venezuela's TPS program, the U.S. is rendering the record number of Venezuelans who have reached the U.S. over the past two years eligible for the status. An estimated 472,000 additional Venezuelans are expected to qualify for TPS, which has already allowed about 242,000 migrants from that country to obtain the status, according to DHS figures. Venezuelans who reached the U.S. after the end of July will not qualify for TPS.
"Temporary protected status provides individuals already present in the United States with protection from removal when the conditions in their home country prevent their safe return," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement. "That is the situation that Venezuelans who arrived here on or before July 31 of this year find themselves in."

While others without legal status will also qualify for TPS, the announcement will mostly benefit the more than 400,000 Venezuelan migrants who have trekked to the U.S. southern border over the past two-and-a-half years as part of a massive exodus from the South American country.

In recent years, more than seven million Venezuelans have fled economic calamity and authoritarian rule, with most of them resettling in other South American nations, such as Colombia, marking the largest refugee crisis ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. Increasingly, more Venezuelans have left Venezuela or other countries in search of better economic opportunities in the U.S., embarking on a weeks-long journey that entails crossing Panama's once-impenetrable Darién Gap on foot.

The administration's announcement is an important victory for congressional Democrats and leaders in large cities like New York, who for months have been pressuring the federal government to grant migrants in their communities legal status so they can work legally more quickly and not rely on local services.

New York City, in particular, has struggled to house tens of thousands of migrants, many of them from Venezuela, in over 200 hotels, shelters, tent cities and other facilities.

"Our administration and our partners across the city have led the calls to 'Let Them Work,' so I want to thank President Biden for hearing our entire coalition, including our hard-working congressional delegation, and taking this important step that will bring hope to the thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers currently in our care who will now be immediately eligible for Temporary Protected Status," New York Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday.


The Biden administration has used TPS on an unprecedented scale, making record numbers of migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Myanmar, Sudan and Ukraine eligible for the program.

The administration has also kept in place long-standing TPS programs for El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, reversing the Trump administration's efforts to terminate them. TPS has long been criticized by Republicans who argue it had been improperly used to give legal status to migrants, some of whom entered the U.S. illegally, for indefinite periods of time despite its temporary nature.

The Biden administration, however, has internally resisted at times expanding TPS programs for certain countries, such as Nicaragua, due to concerns about encouraging more migrants to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally with a generous immigration announcement.

Pressed by CBS News on whether they feared that expanding the TPS policy could fuel more migration, administration officials said they hoped to dissuade Venezuelan migrants from entering the U.S. illegally by setting a cut-off date for the program in July.

"The continuous residence date being set at July 31, 2023, makes clear that individuals who arrive after that date will not be eligible for TPS. We're hoping to communicate that clearly," a senior DHS official said, requesting anonymity during a briefing with reporters.

Illegal crossings along the southern border have reached record levels under the Biden administration. While they dropped to a two-year low in June, unlawful border crossings increased sharply in July and August, testing a carrots and sticks strategy the administration unveiled earlier this year with the hopes of slowing down U.S.-bound migration.

The administration announced several additional actions on Wednesday to address the concerns from New York and other cities receiving migrants. It said it would expedite the review of work permit requests for migrants who enter the U.S. at border ports of entry through a phone app-powered system and a program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans with American sponsors. The objective, officials said, is to adjudicate those requests within 30 days, down from the current 90-day average.

Officials also announced that DHS will increase the validity period of work permits from two to five years for many migrants, including asylum-seekers, refugees and green card applicants. The move, officials added, is designed to cut down on the number of renewal applications the agency has to review.

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Biden permits 500k Venezuelan illegal migrants with residency status, but the U.S. turned the Haitians away with the quickness….

Why pick and choose now. Just let everybody in.

Does haiti have what venezuela has?

xbossxplayax said 🔗 Does haiti have what venezuela has?

Yes. Haiti, along with Hondurans & Nicaragua thru 2025. Got family here via TPS

To replace all the striking UAW!!!!!

folks better get onboard..the subplantation is happening!! the elite wanted us to hate each other but the foreign invaders are coming. not this generation but the next and next.

only idiot folks will look at color..while biden is letting them in from EVERYWHERE

Excellent. More individuals paying into SS that will never get the benefit. It’s like the late 70s and 80s repeating itself.

@🔗 will come in here with his superman cap defending his lord and savior Biden.

To keep it a bean though, this is ridiculous, half a mill? Bet the majority of them are mostly males too. Biden need to get the fu#k outta here for real. Going down as the Worst President of All Time.

Biden is giving all of these migrants everything in his power, but can't put a dent into anything substantial for his biggest voting block, African-Americans, or even the average American. He completely failed with relieving Americans of their student loans as promised. What a useless presidency and administration. People voted in a president who works for illegal immigration instead of actual American citizens that voted him in power.

Fleeing socialism, Cubans came to America and became a Republican voting bloc.

Venezuelans are in the exact same situation. But this time Republicans treat them as burdens while Biden is going to allow them to stay and work.

Republicans = the dumb party.

confidential1 said 🔗 Biden permits 500k Venezuelan illegal migrants with residency status, but the U.S. turned the Haitians away with the quickness….

Under the humanitarian parole program, up to 30,000 people are being allowed each month to enter the U.S. from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Dripset said 🔗 @🔗 will come in here with his superman cap defending his lord and savior Biden. To keep it a bean though, this is ridiculous, half a mill? Bet the majority of them are mostly males too. Biden need to get the fu#k outta here for real. Going down as the Worst President of All Time.

What do I need to defend? This is a solid move. fu#k you white nationalists, I love watching you racists cry.

Lock Biden up

Old mans ridiculous

xbossxplayax said 🔗 Does haiti have what venezuela has?

Haiti made an agreement with Reagan back in the 80s to send their people back

politics

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this is dope, im happy for all of the future Americans

2.5 million more and he'll catch up to Reagan

whatevaitakes said 🔗 Fleeing socialism, Cubans came to America and became a Republican voting bloc. Venezuelans are in the exact same situation. But this time Republicans treat them as burdens while Biden is going to allow them to stay and work. Republicans = the dumb party.

Most Hispanics dont even vote. They have the lowest voting rates and never get called out for it. Cubans are the few that do and their vote actually makes a difference cause most are in Florida which is a swing state

Other Hispanics like Dominicans, Ricans and Colombians dont do no voting they just party all day lol

Thats why I think this bullsh1t the Biden administration is doing is for some other reason than voting. The same way that crack being pushed into Black cities in the 80s was to destroy the black family unit in many ways

The same way migrants are being shipped all over especially in cities with high Black populations....it has to be a deeper reason other than votes

I feel like it has to do with AI in some way

Ymmot said 🔗 What do I need to defend? This is a solid move. fu#k you white nationalists, I love watching you racists cry.

Just as I mentioned earlier, anyone who doesnt agree with your extreme liberal bullsh1t is a white nationalist, however im actually 100% mexican. We all know your a angry white guy behind you monitor paid to be on here and spread your establishment propaganda

And what is so solid about this move?

Dripset said 🔗 Just as I mentioned earlier, anyone who doesnt agree with your extreme liberal bullsh1t is a white nationalist, however im actually 100% mexican. We all know your a angry white guy behind you monitor paid to be on here and spread your establishment propaganda And what is so solid about this move?

Extreme liberal? Earlier you said I was a Democrat, now I'm an extreme liberal?? Which is it? To me, anyone caping for team white nationalist is a white nationalist, maybe you see the world differently.


My dad is puerto rican and my mom is mexican.

Ymmot said 🔗 Extreme liberal? Earlier you said I was a Democrat, now I'm an extreme liberal?? Which is it? To me, anyone caping for team white nationalist is a white nationalist, maybe you see the world differently. My dad is puerto rican and my mom is mexican.

extreme liberal is the same as a democrat in these days, whats the difference? Youre a white male or even female, you to scared to proof your ethnicity, we all knows up, you an agent

so tell me, how is this a solid move?

confidential1 said 🔗 Biden permits 500k Venezuelan illegal migrants with residency status, but the U.S. turned the Haitians away with the quickness….

But atleast he's not a big bad racist meany like Trump!

Dripset said 🔗 extreme liberal is the same as a democrat in these days, whats the difference? Youre a white male or even female, you to scared to proof your ethnicity, we all knows up, you an agent so tell me, how is this a solid move?

Democrats are centrists. Extreme liberal is someone like Bernie Sanders. The Democratic party and the whole msm told Bernie to take a back seat. But I get why they brainwash you sheep into associating Democrat with left and Republican with right to keep their illusion going.


We have a severe shortage of labor in this country. It's funny how you white people are "so offended" by letting minorities in who will work for minimum wage, but you never keep the same energy for white and asian immigrants who are recruited by these tech companies to come here and take high paying jobs.

This is planned

It's like El salvadores president said: a country this successful going down this quickly can only happen if there's an enemy within.