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Joe Biden turning to Donald Trump-era rule to expel Venezuelan migrants

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A group of Venezuelan migrants walks toward the United States border to surrender to the border patrol in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. [AP]

Two years ago, candidate Joe Biden loudly denounced President Donald Trump for immigration policies that inflicted "cruelty and exclusion at every turn," including toward those fleeing the "brutal" government of socialist Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.

Now, with increasing numbers of Venezuelans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border as the Nov. 8 election nears, Biden has turned to an unlikely source for a solution: his predecessor's playbook.

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