Thousands of Venezuelans crossed into Peru despite a crackdown on migrants witho...
TUMBES, Peru - Thousands of Venezuelans crossed into Peru despite a crackdown on migrants without passports or visas meant to stem the flood of immigration from their crisis-stricken nation, as many lacking those documents filed asylum requests instead.
However, asylum seekers are not required to have passports under international law, providing poor Venezuelans with a way around the changes. “This is my last resort. I hope they let me in,” Yaisy Segovia said, as she waited to fill out a form requesting asylum at tents set up by the UN refugee agency UNHCR. Inside the tents, U.N. assistants helped Venezuelans answer questions on the forms.
Peru is home to some 800,000 Venezuelan migrants, the government says - the second-largest population outside Colombia, which houses more than 1.2 million.
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