Trump is going hard against Venezuelan migrants, a blow to a group that overwhelming supported him in the 24 election

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Trump Administration Moves to End Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S.
The decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 people signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries.


The Trump administration has ended Temporary Protected Status, or T.P.S., for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the United States, leaving the population vulnerable to potential deportation in the coming months, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times.

The move, President Trump’s first to remove such protections in his second term, signals that he plans to continue a crackdown on the program that began in his first administration, when he sought to terminate the status for migrants from Sudan, El Salvador and Haiti, among others. He was stymied by federal courts that took issue with the way he undid the protections.

The decision is also the latest in a series of Trump administration moves to tighten the immigration system, including pausing programs that allow migrants to enter through previously legal pathways and freezing the refugee system.

When the first Trump administration ended the protections for migrants from El Salvador and Haiti, officials allowed those affected to keep their status for 12 to 18 months before it ended.

This time, the administration has decided to make the changes more immediate. Those under T.P.S. from Venezuela who received the protections in 2023 will lose their temporary status 60 days after the government publishes the termination notice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/trump-venezuela-temporary-protected-status.html


Trump revokes deportation protections for 300,000 Venezuelans in US – report
Move comes as one-two punch for group already reeling from last week’s decision to rescind 18-month extension

The Trump administration has stepped up its attack on Venezuelans living in the US under temporary deportation protections, revoking the right to stay of more than 300,000 people.

The move, first reported by the New York Times, comes as a one-two punch for Venezuelans who were already reeling from last week’s decision to rescind an 18-month extension of temporary protected status (TPS) that had been introduced in the final days of the out-going Biden administration. Reversing the extension was a blow that affected more than 600,000 Venezuelans living in the US.

Now Trump has targeted a subset of that Venezuelan immigrant community who entered the TPS program in 2023, obtaining the right to remain in the US until at least April. Having revoked their protections, the Trump administration is giving that group of more than 300,000 Venezuelans just 60 days before they become vulnerable to deportation.

A further 250,000 Venezuelans who arrived in 2021 have TPS protections until September. Their position beyond that date must now be considered to be in severe jeopardy.

TPS is a federal program designed to offer temporary shelter to those fleeing natural disasters or armed conflict. It offers a right to live in the US but without a longer term path to citizenship.

The double blow of two successive cuts to the TPS program for Venezuelans has prompted cries of dismay from both Venezuela and the US. The Venezuelan opposition website El Pitazo said that the revoking of the Biden administration’s 18-month extension “fell like an atomic bomb over this migrant community”.

Andres Oppenheimer, writing in the Miami Herald, noted that Trump’s move against Venezuelans targeted “some of his most ardent supporters in the US – both voters and TPS-holders. Buoyed by Trump and Florida legislators’ hard-line rhetoric against Venezuela’s dictatorship, Venezuela’s exile community had overwhelmingly supported Trump in the 2024 US elections.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/trump-revokes-protections-venezuelans

[Hitorque]

1. Venezuelans must have a soft spot for dictators 😐

I can't figure it out either.

[iemanja]

3. Most here are refugees from Chavez and Maduro

[Hitorque]

6. Then they go and vote for the same in our country?

Bravo... Take a bow, Venezuelans!

[iemanja]

7. The refugees can't vote

Protected status is for non-citizens.

[LisaL]

8. Majority of the ones who could vote, voted for Trump, according

to the article. So they didn't like the dictatorship in Venezuela but they voted for the one here in the US? They might as well have stayed in Venezuela then. Citizens probably won't be deported. I say probably because Trump doesn't seem to care.
But they voted for the ones who are not citizens to be deported. FAFO.

[iemanja]

10. They don't like communism

and the Republicans convinced them that Dems were like socialists.

[LisaL]

11. I guess they think fascism is better?

[iemanja]

13. You'd have to ask them

I suspect they didn't think they were voting for fascism.

[LisaL]

14. Like I said, FAFO.

NT

[Hitorque]

19. Then they truly are gullible

[Maru Kitteh]

9. The naturalized citizens, not those with temporary status. Nt

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[SunSeeker]

4. FAFO

[ananda]

5. They musta thought wearing leopard skins would protect them.

Uh huh

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

15. This is an administration that is going hard against non-whites. maybe they thought of themselves as white.

[LisaL]

16. Trump and company made a lot of statements about Hispanics.

Yet many still voted for him. They are about to find out that he actually meant what he said.

[ananda]

17. That's exactly what leopard skin means.

Though I would include some whites in their targeted
groups, such as anybody not financially able to weather
the economic shitstorm.

[totodeinhere]

12. I think we are going to see this more and more where Trump turns on

many of the people who voted for him. Since he is a lame duck I don't think he cares.

[GreenWave]

18. This is exactly how US far right rolls.

They tricked these 300,000 copeyanos into being part of the immigration problem. Entering through the middle of Texas as per the plan. Then they let these conos e madre campaign like crazy to get dictator T "elected". (We are seeing some weird things in that regard.)Now they will feed these 300,000 criollos to the maga base as hate fuel.

[mcar]

20. Oh well...

[dsc]

21. Zero sympathy

He made it crystal clear he was going to do this so go find a mirror.

[Mountainguy]

22. Cubans next?

[XanaDUer2]

23. Fafo

Listen ing to orange anus rant on tv