On March 9, 2021, in a move that was little noted outside of those who study immigration professionally, the still-new Biden administration granted something called Temporary Protected Status to as many as 320,000 Venezuelan nationals in the United States.
The extension of TPS to people from Venezuela, where there was significant economic and political chaos but no civil war, was a departure from existing norms. It also appears to have had the unintended effect of catalyzing an even more significant mass migration from Venezuela to the United States.
A fair amount of what you read about the "migrant crisis" is really about Venezuela, a country that recently experienced a nightmarish, full-scale meltdown of its economic, social, and political institutions.
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