Venezuelans fleeing repression showing up in record numbers at Mexican border

Venezuelan migrants fleeing political repression and dire economic circumstances are increasingly traveling to the United States’s southern border, and nearly all are being admitted under the Biden administration.

The influx is drawing comparison to the mid-century surge of refugees to the U.S. as tens of thousands of people fled Cuba after the revolution in 1959, when Fidel Castro sought to align the country with the Soviet Union and communism. Amid the rush of Cubans attempting to make it across the Atlantic Ocean to Florida, the U.S. government in 1966 rolled out the “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which guaranteed anyone who made it to Florida would be allowed to pursue residency after one year.

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