The United States is waiting to see how the growing instability in Venezuela could affect the U.S.-Mexico border if hundreds of thousands, even millions, choose to flee in the coming months.

Venezuelan immigrants in the U.S. are on edge expecting that family and friends who are still in Venezuela will flee their homes in the coming weeks and months — a move that immigration policy analysts suggest could have major implications on the southern border amid the presidential elections.

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