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.

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      Did you know Donald Trump pardoned the dude who ran the company of the biggest immigration bust in U.S history (for the time)? I’m mentioning it because if you like overnight delivery, fruit, meat, clean hotel rooms, the list goes on, I have some bad news for you. This eliminates an entire pool of people from another level of exploitation and abuse in the U.S. To put it bluntly , this is a good thing.

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        And Im not Trump nor am I voting for Trump.

        This is Bidens admin, not Trump.

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          My point is the people screaming the loudest about illegal immigration directly profit from it and gas people against it. They literally roll in the money and donate it to the same folks on nightly news talking about the border crisis. If there already in the U.S working to generate wealth for other people, like the rest of us, why can’t they be made citizens to have the same rights as the rest of us?

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              Why would you advocate against something you could profit from?

              Because you’re a racist and a xenophobe.

              The whole reason that they’re in the cities care is because they can’t work. This solves that problem by allowing them to work. What part of that do you not get?

              PS: and posting a link to a FOX news source only makes you look worse.

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              Yes, it makes perfect sense. In the words of Juicy J “people do strange things for that change, yeah money will do”. Fear is powerful, they say what needs to be said to remain in power. Hell grandma Boebert is on stage yelling about being squeaky clean, but having the full service 15 year old theater experience in Beetlejuice. Then flat out lied about it despite being on tape.

              If you have a full workforce of people that can’t strike, labor laws don’t apply, they can’t tell anyone about sexual assaults, injuries, do you think the politicians who are getting cash care? Do you think those kids getting busted working in factories were america kids or undocumented kids?

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          That he inherited from Trump… this is Trump’s mess and Biden is just cleaning up the shit, your party caused…

          And, you most certainly are voting for trump… no way you are voting for the second had pics of the GOP runner ups… lmao… I find it even more hilarious, you had to make a throwaway account, just feel safe enough to be hateful here on Lemmy… very telling about who you are…

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          False.

          Consider: I fly to a country as an intended tourist.

          I approach the customs official and say “I’d like to enter as a tourist”

          They look at my paperwork, and approve my visa. I’m now legal. Prior to that I wasn’t illegal, I just wasn’t in yet

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                so racist and xenophobic

                I know what you are, but what am I?

                Just because someone is undocumented doesn’t make them illegal.

                Literally the definition of undocumented immigrant is illegal immigrant. Its an euphemism, that only exists for propaganda purposes.

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                  Childish arguments and redefining phrases just to rationalize your own racism and xenophobia clearly isn’t working here because we are not racist xenophobes who are gonna let you get away with that kind of shenanigans

                  Give it up.

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          These people aren’t “illegals” nor are they “undocumented”. They are Asylum Seekers which means that they’ve filled out paperwork and are awaiting a decision on their case. This program, TPS, doesn’t make them “legal”, as in grant them a Green Card or Citizenship, it just allows them to WORK legally while they are awaiting the outcome of their Asylum Case.

          To put it in Conservative language; do you want these people to continue living off the State or would you prefer that they find a job and start paying taxes?

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        It makes the racist, bigoted, xenophobes angry.

        Not really a problem, per se.

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          NYC specifically wants migrants to be able to work so they can support themselves. Yet you seem to think this is a bad idea.

          Lol

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            Its encouraging more illegals, when they cant handle the ones they have.

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              The only problem is that these immigrants couldn’t work to support themselves. This solves that problem.

              Your problem is that you’re a racist xenophobe. As I said, that’s your problem.

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                Well yeah, by definition illegals can’t work legally.

                And what race are illegals? I swear, for people who constantly claim racism, y’all don’t know what racism is.

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                  Undocumented persons can’t work legally. You’re the only one claiming that they’re illegal because of your racist and xenophobic attitudes. And that’s pretty rich for you to claim others are racist just for pointing out your racism and xenophobia.

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                    Im stating a fact that “undocumented persons” immigrated illegally and by definition, are illegals. I know its slang, but Im not typing out “illegal immigrants” everytime.