Peru Begins Requesting Passports and Visas From Venezuelans

[TomSea]

Peru Begins Requesting Passports and Visas From Venezuelans
The Associated Press

AGUAS VERDES, Peru (AP) — Riot police are guarding Peru's northern border to ensure that only Venezuelan migrants who hold a passport and humanitarian visa can enter the country.

The new requirements took effect Saturday as an influx of Venezuelans rushed to a border crossing in the region of Tumbes.

Stephanía Robles and her five-year-old son were two of the last migrants to enter the Andean country with just their national ID cards. The 30-year-old said she had come to "look for a better life" and that her husband and sisters were in Peru.

Read more at: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-06-15/peru-begins-requesting-passports-and-visas-from-venezuelans

There was a big rush to the border to get into Peru before this law went into effect.
https://www.reuters.com/video/2019/06/15/venezuelans-rush-to-peru-border-ahead-of?videoId=562807895
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-48644801

[Fishrrman]

"Riot police are guarding Peru's northern border to ensure that only Venezuelan migrants who hold a passport and humanitarian visa can enter the country."

They're guardin' the borders, down in Peru.
If they can do it, why can't we do it, too...?