Maduro reject's Biden's comments on migration

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro decried President Joe Biden's remarks about Venezuelan migration this Tuesday. In a press briefing at the White House, Biden said that what's on his watch now is Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua and that "It's not rational" to send migrants back to their countries’ Biden lies about our countries", said Maduro on state television.

Venezuelans surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality after Mexicans among migrants crossing the U.S. border illegally. authorities stopped Venezuelans 25,349 times in August, up 43% from 17,652 times in July and four times the 6,301 stops recorded in August 2021.Maduro blames U.S sanctions for forcing people to decide to leave the country. "The issue of migration is a global issue of centuries and centuries. Now, Venezuela has been exploited, attacked, and sanctioned, and part of the population decided to migrate", Maduro said.