U.S. allowing hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the country to work legally

Photo caption: Venezuelan migrants hold their country’s flag as they walk along the border fence to turn themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol in 2022 in El Paso, Texas. Photo credit: Joe Raedle / Getty Images. Article by Rebecca Santana, AP and Elliot Spagat, AP. PBS News Hour – September 21, 2023. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it’s granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country — quickly making them eligible to work — as it grapples with growing numbers of people fleeing the South American country and elsewhere to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border. […]

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