Millions of Venezuelan President Maduro will consider fleeing their home country if he is re-elected in July, according to a new poll.
According to Spanish-language pollster Meganalysis, 40% of Venezuelans (about 10 million people) are considering leaving their home country to escape Mr. Maduro's regime, while 45% are unsure.
Meganalysis Chairman Ruben Chirinos said in a statement to the Miami Herald that the outcome was “monstrous and scandalous” for Maduro.
Many of these 10 million would-be immigrants will likely end up in the United States, but if current trends continue, others will settle in Colombia, Peru, Spain, Brazil, and other South and Latin American countries. Of the 7.7 million people who have fled Venezuela in recent years, nearly 3 million have settled in Colombia.
The Biden administration is also likely to make efforts to resettle many of these immigrants here in the United States. At the beginning of President Biden's term, there were just under 500,000 foreign-born Venezuelans in the country, according to the Pew Research Center.
According to Customs and Border Protection, from January to March 2024 alone, more than 100,000 Venezuelans were transferred to the special parole program created by Biden to help Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans. entered the United States through
Texas and 20 other states have sued the Biden administration to end the practice, saying they are hurting immigrants by bearing the brunt of their health care costs and other social security programs. A federal judge upheld the parole program in March.
“The perception that we are seeing in Venezuela over time is that the Chávez movement, with all that socialism entails, is becoming weaker and weaker in terms of popular support, but clinging to power and social It is led by individuals who cling to the concept of ideology and impose their own views on the nation, which gives them the opportunity to have a family, a better quality of life, and growth. It doesn’t create possibilities,” Chirinos said. Herald.
Daniel Di Martino, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a doctoral student at Columbia University, is himself a Venezuelan immigrant. warns that only more Venezuelans will leave the country. .
“I have been telling people for months that if Mr. Maduro is 're-elected' in another fraudulent election on July 28th, a new wave of immigration from Venezuela will begin. “At least another million people could leave the country,” Di Martino said.
