Daniel Di Martino 🇺🇸🇻🇪 Profile picture
Economics PhD student @Columbia studying immigration | @DissidentProj Founder | Fellow @ManhattanInst | @YAF Speaker & Board of Advisors | @TFASorg Novak Fellow
Feb 4 29 tweets 7 min read
Stay tuned. Reading the Senate Border Deal and will explain the immigration provisions below ⬇️ First, the act authorizes DHS to hire more employees to implement it, specifically to vet asylum claims and deport.

To achieve this quickly, it direct the "re-hiring" of veteran agents of the agencies.

This is the idea I recommended here @ManhattanInst
manhattan.institute/article/reduci…
Mar 5, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
On this day, ten years ago, socialist dictator Hugo Chávez died.

The demon that destroyed Venezuela, leading to the migration of over 7.1 million people, the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and the suffering of countless.

Never forget who supported him. Thread with names ⬇️ Kevin Spacey
Sean Penn
Oliver Stone
Danny Glover
Jan 16, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵The new process for #Venezuela implemented since October has massively reduced the number of Venezuelans who cross the U.S. southern border. I estimate that 59% fewer Venezuelans are crossing than otherwise.

What can we expect now this process is expanded to other countries? Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans were being allowed to claim asylum in the U.S. by the tens of thousands. In September over 80,000 came in under Title 8 and very few were expelled under Title 42 due to the presumption that they have strong asylum cases.
Jan 13, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
🧵Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has expanded by more than double since Biden entered office.

Biden has designated more countries for TPS than any other President since the program was created in 1990. Image TPS allows noncitizens living legally or illegally in the United States to obtain a new usually 18-month long legal status with work authorization if they come from crisis-affected country.

It's a legal use of executive authority but one with long-term problems.
Jun 9, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
The @UN deserves no credit for helping Venezuelans. They continue to recognize Maduro as President and for years said Venezuela was the "Least food insecure country". Now that over 4 million people have escaped, they want credit for giving them humanitarian aid? No, thanks. Venezuelans wouldn't need aid if it wasn't for negligent organizations like the UN which continues to be a platform for dictators and human rights violators. They attack Israel, a beacon of human rights in its region, but glorify Cuba, Venezuela, and more as examples to follow.