Colombia will give citizenship to more than 24,000 children born to Venezuelan m...
BOGOTA - Colombia will give citizenship to more than 24,000 children born to Venezuelan migrant parents in Colombia, to prevent the children from being stateless and less able to access education and healthcare, President Ivan Duque said on Monday.
More than 1.4 million Venezuelans have settled in Colombia, fleeing a long-running political and economic crisis in their homeland that has caused severe shortages of food and medicine. “Today we are supporting children, we are supporting these helpless little ones who want to have a right to citizenship and we’re proudly saying that they are Colombians,” Duque told journalists.
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