This decision will have a horrific impact on more than 505,400 Venezuelans who currently hold protected status,” the legislators wrote.
According to Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s “border czar,” the administration’s deportation policies apply only to people who are “in the country illegally,” not to the “millions of people standing in line, taking the test, doing their background investigation, paying the fees, that want to come in the right way.”
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has announced a cancelation of Biden-era protections for Venezuelan migrants as the administration ramps up deportations.
The Trump administration this week revoked an 18-month extension on the Temporary Protected Status designation for Venezuelans in the U.S.
The Trump Administration is revoking temporary protected status for over 60,000 Venezuelan migrants, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday morning. The newly confirmed DHS secretary slammed her predecessor Alejandro Mayorkas for tying the Trump Administration’s hands and signing an order giving Venezuelan migrants temporary protected status so they could “stay here and violate the laws” for another 18 months.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said her predecessor should not have extended protections that were set to expire during Trump’s administration and vowed to make her own decision.
Three Republican congressional members from South Florida pledged Wednesday to "do everything possible" to protect Venezuelans who were granted temporary U.S. residency under the former Biden administration.
The decision to wipe Venezuela's TPS status signals that the Trump administration may expect to arrest and remove a large number of Venezuelans.
Action by the Trump administration to cancel protected immigration status for people from Venezuela has migrants — and the city workers assigned to help them — grappling for any possible path forward.
With the Trump administration's revocation of Venezuela's TPS designation extension, this mixed-status Houston family's future is up in the air.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has revoked an 18-month extension of temporary protected status for an estimated 600,000 Venezuelan migrants in the United States.