The Biden administration announced that it will grant work permits for nearly half a million Venezuelans. City officials in New York have been calling for it as tens of thousands of migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have arrived in the city in recent months. But the process of applying for the legal right to work can take months, as The World's Tibisay Zea reports from New York.
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