Venezuelans seeking asylum in the US who are already living in the country will be allowed to work legally under new rules announced by the Biden administration.

About 472,000 people will be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months.

It follows calls by Democrats to expand work access for newly-arrived migrants.

US cities have been grappling with large numbers fleeing economic and political turmoil in Venezuela.

People must have been living in the US on or before 31 July to be eligible for temporary deportation relief and access to work permits under TPS. If granted, they will be allowed to work while they wait for an asylum determination to be made.

  • BertramDitore@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I read about the caste discrimination in San Francisco, it’s a pretty fascinating example. I personally think when you couple the benefits to society as a whole with the day-to-day improvements for individual immigrants, the positives come out waaay ahead of the potential risks. And I think those risks could be mitigated by making deliberate and thoughtful policy–obviously outlandish, I know.

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      those risks could be mitigated by making deliberate and thoughtful policy–

      the problem is that these sorts of problems are never even considered by govts until it’s too late.