Venezuelans begin fleeing U.S. as protections end, threat of war looms

Washington Post: Several immigration lawyers and experts raised concerns that the cancellation of TPS could force Venezuelans to return to potentially dangerous conditions in their homeland — even though U.S. immigration law “says that we cannot send people to a country where they would face persecution or torture,” said Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst and attorney at the Migration Policy Institute. Some Venezuelans have been frantically scrubbing their social media and messaging accounts — deleting old posts, photos, even casual comments that mention the Venezuelan government or the opposition — in case they’re forced to return…