[2][3] Mass migration from Venezuela has proven challenging for authorities in Roraima, with informal estimates from 2019 suggesting that Venezuelan refugees constitute a fifth of the state's total population.

In 2018, right-wing businessman Antonio Denarium, an ally of Jair Bolsonaro, successfully ran for Governor of Roraima.

[7] During the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections, some right-wing candidates in the state capital city of Boa Vista employed anti-Venezuelan sentiment.

[9] On August 16, 2022, about 25 Warao from Teixeira de Freitas, Bahia,[a] were dropped off by a city bus in an area close to the Vitória bus station, Espírito Santo, during the night, thus generating a debate about whose care responsibility and whether it would be legal to "transfer the problem to another city".

Neither the Secretariat of Justice, Human Rights and Social Development of Bahia nor the state government itself were communicated.