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Many of these migrants are fleeing political persecution at the hands of Venezuela’s authoritarian regime, and the majority of those who make it to immigration court ultimately do qualify for asylum, according to data published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University research center.
By expanding border expulsions to Venezuelans, the latest enforcement action will significantly curb those migrants’ ability to seek asylum, a legal right, and force thousands of Venezuelan migrants back to Mexico instead.
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