I met Venezuelans who are scamming the asylum system en masse to get...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : CBP has encountered 297,500 Venezuelans from fiscal 2021 through March 2023 -- 61,000 in just the first half of 2023.
57% : A US Customs and Border Protection spokesperson recently acknowledged that 99% of 80,000 CBP One applicants for humanitarian permits got accepted.
56% :Consider one emblematic Venezuelan woman named Neila I met in Juarez who had just received a US humanitarian parole permit granted through the online reservation app the US government has set up called CBP One.
54% : In fact, many can afford to fly almost all the way to the southern border, very often seen rolling their regulation overhead airplane luggage up river banks or through Mexican towns.
52% : Until recently, the American government told Venezuelans they would be returned to Mexico under Title 42 if they chose not to wait in CBP One queues in Mexico.
47% : "We're going to let in those who may or may not have any particular reason to seek asylum, including some who feel safe in their home country," an immigration attorney told the magazine.
45% : In interviews en route to border crossings, Venezuelans have admitted to me that they only decided to leave their safe lives in those adopted countries because they saw the American government admitting Venezuelans who illegally crossed the southern border.
44% : "Those arriving for the CBP One appointments are given no interviews and asked no questions about vulnerabilities they listed in the app or about why they're seeking asylum in the US -- they're simply released into the country on official parole.
41% : JUAREZ, MEXICO -- Venezuelans are one of the highest-volume immigrant nationalities to have crossed the southern border during this historic mass-migration crisis, now in its third year, with 5 million foreign-national border crossers in the country.
33% : All Venezuelans have been or will be let into America to stay on asylum or humanitarian claims that presume they are directly fleeing Venezuelan government persecution or face some other imminent danger back home.

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