So these migrants were willing to basically risk their lives to reach the United States. The United States, they heard, was allowing Venezuelans who made it to the border to stay in the country, and jobs were plentiful. But because the economies of those countries began to sputter, they said that they could no longer make as much money to send home. Millions of these migrants first went to nearby countries like Colombia, Ecuador, Chile and Peru. But not everyone is so fortunate to have the money or the legal means to do that. My entire family has left Venezuela over the past three decades. Today, one out of five Venezuelans lives outside their home country. So they made this decision to leave, however they could. If they had jobs or small businesses, they were earning very little money, and their savings were depleted. The migrants I’ve talked to were impoverished after living in those conditions. There are shortages of food, medicine and other staples. Venezuela is a broken country, where political dissent is repressed and the economy has collapsed.
Miriam Jordan: They are mostly Venezuelans, coming to the U.S. German Lopez: Who are the migrants getting caught up in all of this?
To understand what’s going on, I spoke with my colleague Miriam Jordan, who has been covering the story at the border and across the U.S. governor Greg Abbott of Texas, in sending migrants to progressive strongholds. He was following the lead, albeit more explosively, of his fellow G.O.P. Ron DeSantis of Florida created a firestorm this month for what he did to about 50 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the southern border: He put them on two planes that took them to Martha’s Vineyard, the famously liberal and upscale vacation destination in Massachusetts.
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