Venezuela, Trump and deportation
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The administration’s decisions to end temporary protected status for Venezuelans and expedite refugee status for Afrikaners have generated concern that he is using humanitarian protections to reward allies and punish enemies.
The end of Temporary Protected Status in the United States represents a potentially devastating reality for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who sought refuge in the U.S., many of them living in South Florida after escaping the regime of Nicolás Maduro.
On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the administration to end protections that had allowed some 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants to remain in the United States. That group of Venezuelans could face deportation.
Monday’s decision allowing the Trump administration to revoke temporary protections for up to 350,000 Venezuelans could affect key sectors in some parts of the U.S.
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Latin Times on MSNDemocratic Rep. Slams Ruling Allowing Deportation Of Venezuelans: 'Atrocious Decision'Democratic Rep. Bennie Wasserman Schultz slammed the Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to revoke TPS for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans
The girl’s mother was deported to Venezuela, U.S. authorities sent her father to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador under Trump’s invocation of an 18th-century wartime law.
"This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history," said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of a UCLA immigration law center.