U.S. policies will likely lead to unsafe returns of Venezuelans and represent dangerous precedents for the future and examples for the region.
October 6, 2023
The Biden administration is betraying its promise to ensure access to asylum at the border and rebuild the U.S. refugee resettlement program.
October 13, 2022
The UN confirmed that the number of displaced Venezuelans has reached 6.8 million people—tying with Ukraine for the largest refugee and migrant crisis worldwide, and surpassing Syria for the first…
August 31, 2022
The Biden administration’s decision today to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans residing in the United States is a long-awaited, lifesaving move.
March 8, 2021
Refugees International applauds Colombia’s commitment to regularize displaced Venezuelans and allow them the right to work for ten years.
February 8, 2021
The Center for Global Development and Refugees International launched a report today about COVID-19’s economic effects on Venezuelan refugees in Peru.
December 16, 2020
The return of at least 16 children and an estimated 12 adults to Trinidad following their deportation to Venezuela gives Trinidad and Tobago a second chance to uphold their domestic…
November 25, 2020
The Center for Global Development and Refugees International launched a report today finding that COVID-19’s economic effects hit Venezuelan refugees in Colombia particularly hard.
October 28, 2020
Refugees International expresses alarm about reports that the Trump administration has been engaged in stealth deportations of Venezuelans from the United States to Venezuela via third countries, including Trinidad and…
October 19, 2020
Following the registration period for Venezuelan refugees in Trinidad and Tobago, thousands remain unregistered. Refugees International is gravely concerned about the possibility that arrests and deportations may follow.
June 13, 2019
As businesses struggle with historic labor shortages, the bi-partisan House Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act (H.R. 1325) can’t be passed soon enough. Tell your member of Congress to support H.R. 1325.
