“You're Lifting Temporary Status for Venezuelans?": Sen. Cory Booker Clashes With Rubio | N18G

Описание: WATCH: Marco Rubio Testifies at Senate Hearing on U.S. Policy Toward Venezuela | Trump | CNBC TV18
Democratic Senator Cory Booker points to travel advisories that state the risk of unlawful detention is high and says the "constant oppression" of Venezuelan people is continuing.
Rubio defends travel advisories, saying it was due to concerns people would "flood over" after Maduro had been seized.
Booker comes back, saying it is "hypocritical" for the US government to be issuing "human rights cautions" for Americans who might want to travel to Venezuela, at the same time as lifting temporary protected status for Venezuelans and threatening to deport them.
He says the US is "complicit" in human rights violations.
Rubio claims temporary protected status was granted to "vast" numbers "without proper vetting", and said some of them could be Venezuelan gang members.
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to address the Senate Foreign Relations committee on the situation in Venezuela.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Venezuela. The hearing follows U.S. airstrikes on Caracas and a military operation in early January in which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and taken to New York to face federal charges, according to U.S. authorities. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez assumed the interim presidency and has agreed to an oil supply deal with the U.S. government.
The Trump administration has notified Congress that it is taking the first steps to possibly reopen the shuttered U.S. Embassy in Venezuela as it explores restoring relations with the South American country following the U.S. military raid that ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro.
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