Venezuelan Migrants Scored a Big Victory. Biden admin grants right to workl status for 500,000

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Venezuelan Migrants Scored a Big Victory. How Will It Affect New York?
With nearly 500,000 Venezuelan migrants able to legally work, N.Y. officials were weighing the practical and political impact of a complex decision.

The Biden administration’s decision to grant special status to Venezuelan migrants will have no greater impact than in New York City, where thousands of immigrants will soon be eligible to begin legally applying for work and eventually move out of taxpayer-funded shelters.

Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul, both Democrats, cast the move as a badly needed reprieve, saying on Thursday that it could help some of the 60,000 migrants in city care move to independent housing more quickly. The policy could also help ensure that other Venezuelans never need the shelters.

Yet even as they celebrated a policy shift after months of intensely lobbying the White House, top New York officials, immigration experts and shelter operators labored to figure out the practical and political impact of a decision many thought President Biden would never make.

Some conceded that it would do little to defray the larger crisis confronting the nation’s largest city — and could eventually worsen it by encouraging more people to immigrate.


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/nyregion/venezuelans-migrants-work-nyc.html