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As the Gov­ern­ment moves to reg­u­larise un­doc­u­ment­ed mi­grants through a new reg­is­tra­tion ex­er­cise, ac­tivists are call­ing for ur­gent di­a­logue and clar­i­ty amid fears with­in the Venezue­lan com­mu­ni­ty that com­ing for­ward could lead to de­por­ta­tion.

Ac­tivist Yese­nia Gon­za­lez wel­comed the de­ci­sion to re­open reg­is­tra­tion but warned that mis­takes from the trou­bled 2019 Venezue­lan Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Process must not be re­peat­ed. She said her or­gan­i­sa­tion was seek­ing a meet­ing with Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cials to ad­dress con­cerns.

“We need to dis­cuss it to clar­i­fy things for the Venezue­lans about the process, be­cause there are a lot of con­cerns and a lot of fear that a lot of the Venezue­lans are afraid to reg­is­ter. They have a lot of dif­fer­ent mat­ters as they talk about how all im­mi­grants are il­le­gal,” Gon­za­lez said.