Immigration officials have been told to open the door to more refugees from South America in a formal directive that is likely to change the make-up of the annual 18,750 humanitarian intake from next month.
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie on Saturday urged the international community to provide more support to three South American countries with the most migrants from crisis-hit Venezuela,saying 20,000 Venezuelan children are at risk of being without basic citizenship rights.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Russia told the United States it had removed most of its people from Venezuela.
Canada has played a key role within the Lima Group along with nearly a dozen Latin American nations to try to rein in Nicolas Maduro.
The activists,who consider socialist Nicolas Maduro to be their legitimate president,have protested inside the embassy in Washington for more than a month.
Vice-President of the opposition-controlled National Assembly said agents used a tow truck to drag his vehicle,with him inside,to one of their Caracas bases.
The timing of the Sergei Lavrov-Jorge Arreaza meeting is,if not surprising,at least conspicuous.
The dead were heading to a state where President Nicolas Maduro appeared alongside troops on Saturday.
Why does the Kremlin care what happens in Caracas? It's not a rerun of Cuban relations during the Cold War,but about how Moscow sees Syria and Libya.
"China is the world's largest oil importer and Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world."
The rebellion seemed to have garnered only limited military support.