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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on June 15, 2019, 04:21:09 pm
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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.
StephanÃa 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 (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.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 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-48644801)
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"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...?