Maikelis Espinoza arrived in Caracas after she was separated from her parents when they were deported from the U.S. in what Venezuela denounced as a kidnapping.
House Republicans want to tax remittances, which would cover over 40 million people in the U.S., including green card and visa holders who send money to families.
The asylum seeker and former lawyer who fled religious persecution in 2022 says it "scares" her that her baby would be born without U.S. citizenship and is part of a group suing the administration.
No federal funds go toward the state cash assistance program and undocumented immigrants are not eligible to participate, an immigration advocate said.
During his 2010-2015 presidency, Mujica, widely known as “Pepe,” oversaw the transformation of his small South American nation into one of the world’s healthiest and most socially liberal democracies.
The family, now in Mexico, is garnering support from some members of Congress as they prepare to apply for humanitarian parole, hoping the 11-year-old can resume her treatment in the U.S.
The immigrants were woken up at 2:30 a.m. and boarded on a bus to wait for hours outside a military plane in Texas. They were then sent back to solitary confinement.
Lower courts prevented the administration from immediately ending a Biden-era program that granted temporary status to people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
