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Venezuelan migration picks up, reaches about 6.8M

FILE - A migrant family from Venezuela move to Border Patrol transport vehicle after they and other migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and turned themselves in Del Rio, Texas, June 16, 2021. In May, more than 7,000 Venezuelans were encountered along the U.S.-Mexico border, more than all previous 14 years on record combined. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) FILE - Migrants, many from Central American and Venezuela, walk along the Huehuetan highway in Chiapas state, Mexico, early June 7, 2022. The group left Tapachula on Monday, tired of waiting to normalize their status in a region with little work and still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the United States. About 6.8 million Venezuelans have left their homeland since an economic crisis took hold in earnest in 2014 for the country of some 28 million people. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File) FILE - A Venezuelan migrant waves at Colombian police as he walks past in Los Patios, near Cucuta, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. About 6.8 million Venezuelans have left their homeland since an economic crisis took hold in earnest in 2014 for the country of some 28 million people. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File) FILE - A volunteer waits to deliver a plate of food at the Colombian-Venezuelan Foundation "Nueva Ilusion" soup kitchen near the border with Venezuela in Los Patios, Colombia, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. The coordinator of the foundation said Venezuelans are returning from the other countries _ Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia _ again to Venezuela, but that they return after 15 days or a month. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) FILE - Venezuelan Frank Fernandez, center, eats with friends at the Colombian-Venezuelan Foundation "Nueva Ilusión" soup kitchen near the border with Venezuela in Los Patios, Colombia, Aug. 6, 2022. “Hope is the last thing to be lost, but at the moment, there is none,” Fernandez said as he tried to contact his family to let them know he had reached Colombia with his brother after walking up to 25 miles (40 kilometers) a day. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) FILE - Migrants from Venezuela cross into Chile from the Bolivian border near Colchane, Chile, Dec. 9, 2021. At least 753,000 Venezuelans have left their country for another in Latin America or the Caribbean since November 2021, according to data from receiving countries. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)