The Venezuelan exodus to the US


Venezuelan migrants waiting to cross from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, into the United States after an asylum hearing arranged through the mobile app CBP One. — ©2023 The New York Times Company

HUNDREDS of thousands of Venezuelans have arrived at the United States border in the past two years, part of a historic wave of migrants headed north amid growing global crises.

But Venezuela has been in the midst of an economic and humanitarian crisis for roughly a decade.

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