Colombia is giving citizenship to dozens of Venezuelans separated from family members as part of President Nicolas Maduro’s crackdown on illegal immigration along the border.
Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin said the move would allow at least 158 Venezuelans living in their homeland to be reunited with parents or spouses among the estimated 11,000 Colombians who were deported or who abandoned their homes during Maduro’s campaign to rid Venezuela’s western edge of smugglers and criminal gangs.
