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New Effort to Advance TPS for Venezuelans Highlights Gaps in the Hemisphere’s Response

New Effort to Advance TPS for Venezuelans Highlights Gaps in the Hemisphere’s Response

Posted by | Jan 29, 2021 | ,

On January 25, 2021, a group of U.S. Senators led by incoming Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) introduced a bill to designate Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which would grant temporary legal status to Venezuelans fleeing a devastating political and humanitarian crisis in their home country.

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Plan Patria Segura: Whose Patria?

Posted by | Jul 11, 2013 |

Venezuela’s Jesuit Centro Gumilla recently published an article denouncing that the Plan Patria Segura (Secure Homeland Plan) is being used to round up undocumented immigrants in poor barrios of Caracas and eventually deport...

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Geoff Ramsey

Geoff Ramsey

Director for Venezuela @GRamsey_LatAm

David Smilde

David Smilde

WOLA Senior Fellow and the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University

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Kristen

Kristen Martinez-Gugerli

Venezuela Program Associate

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