US Response to Venezuela Earthquake Omits TPS
This week, Venezuela was hit by two large earthquakes. The official death toll is 920 but experts say that it may end up closer to 10,000, which would make it "among the deadliest earthquakes in Latin America in the last century."
The US has responded to the quake in a variety of ways, with "significant financial assistance, ... search and rescue efforts, and collaborat[ion] with the interim Venezuelan authorities to address the acute needs of the Venezuelan people."
You know what isn't on the US list for aid? TPS.
To be sure, it's early days. But the US announced TPS for Haiti within 3 days of the 2010 earthquake. And TPS has previously been issued for other earthquake-affected countries--El Salvador in 2001 and Nepal in 2015.
Just something to think about after the SCOTUS decision on TPS this week.
