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highplainsdem

(53,396 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:37 PM 20 hrs ago

Trump administration ends extended protections for Venezuelans in US, official says

Source: Reuters

The Trump administration has ended extended protections granted to thousands of Venezuelans in the United States and is in talks to repatriate them, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Wednesday, adding that using Guantanamo Bay had not been ruled out.

Noem said the Department of Homeland Security would not follow a Biden-era move that gave Venezuelans in the Temporary Protected Status program an additional 18 months of deportation relief and access to work permits, telling Fox News in an interview: "We stopped that."

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Noem said the State Department is still working with other countries about taking their citizens back and that "the president clearly will exercise all the authority and power that he has to make these countries take them back."

Asked whether use of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba had been ruled out, Noem said: "We're evaluating and talking about that right now. So - President's decision, but it's an asset, and we're going to continue to look at how we can use all of our assets to keep America safe."

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-administration-ends-extended-protections-venezuelans-us-official-says-2025-01-29/

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Trump administration ends extended protections for Venezuelans in US, official says (Original Post) highplainsdem 20 hrs ago OP
..who's going to protect Amerika. thomski64 20 hrs ago #1
And Kash Me Outside? Initech 20 hrs ago #3
He has no authority over other countries. Basically jailed them at Gitmo? underpants 20 hrs ago #2
I thought socialism was bad! Lunabell 19 hrs ago #4

underpants

(188,065 posts)
2. He has no authority over other countries. Basically jailed them at Gitmo?
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:43 PM
20 hrs ago

I know that Hitmo has housing but how many could they really take unless it’s a tent city. Then we’d have to guard, police, feed, and house them…I mean would have to do that, right?

Lunabell

(7,214 posts)
4. I thought socialism was bad!
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 02:18 PM
19 hrs ago

I thought repukes thought Maduro was bad. Make up your minds!!!

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