The Dems toying with these people fleeing Venezuela is fucking disgusting.
These are legitimate asylem seekers, fleeing a comminust regime. They deserve a day in court to make their case for asylum.
Read about Venezuela.
Poverty and hunger
Extreme poverty and lack of food and medicines has pushed more than three million Venezuelans to leave the country in recent years.
[194] Andres Bello Catholic University conducted a study of poverty that found the poorest 20% of Venezuelans had 1.4% of the nation's wealth, down from 3.4% in 2014, while the richest 10% had 61% of the nation's wealth, up from 30%.
[195]
According to government figures released in April 2017, 1,446 children under the age of 1 died in 2016, representing a 30 percent increase in one year.
[196] As of August 2017, 31 million people suffered from severe food shortages.
[197] The ENCOVI universities survey found that 73% of Venezuelans said they had lost 9 kg (19 lbs) of body weight in 2016
[198] and 64% had lost 11 kg (25 lbs) in 2017.
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When the country's economy collapsed in 2014, hunger and malnutrition became a severe problem.
[196] In 2015, close to 45% of Venezuelans said they were unable to afford food at times. In 2018, this figure rose to 79%, one of the highest rates in the world.
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Although poverty initially declined under Chávez, Venezuela's poverty rate increased to 28% by 2013, with extreme poverty rates increasing 4.4% to 10% according to the Venezuelan government's INE.
[202] Estimates of poverty by the
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and
Luis Pedro España, a sociologist at the
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, showed an increase of poverty in Venezuela.
[203] ECLAC showed a 2013 poverty rate of 32% while Pedro España calculated a 2015 rate of 48%.
[203] The Venezuelan government estimated that 33% were in poverty in the first half of 2015 and then stopped producing statistics.
[106] According to Venezuelan NGO
PROVEA, by the end of 2015 there would be the same number of Venezuelans living in poverty as there was in 2000, reversing the advancements against poverty by Chávez.
[203] The ENCOVI annual survey by three universities estimated poverty at 48% in 2014, 82% in 2016 and 87% in 2017.
[200]
In relation to
hunger, under-nutrition, undernourishment and the percentage of children under the age of five who are moderately or severely underweight decreased earlier in Chávez's tenure.
[204] However,
shortages in Venezuela as a result of
price control policies left the majority of Venezuelans without adequate products after his death.
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