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The Trump administration detained Yoiker Sequera at Guantánamo Bay for almost two weeks before he was deported to Venezuela. His mother reflects on finding out her son had been sent to the infamous prison and the effects it had on her.

The Democratic lawmaker say the “abrupt removal of over 500,000 workers will have an immense and irreparable impact on businesses across the country and the economy at large,” noting that collectively they contribute annually $2.3 billion in federal taxes and $1.3 billion in state and local taxes.

After his special envoy's controversial comment that President Trump "doesn't want to do regime change" in Venezuela, Trump reversed course and tightened oil sanctions on that country's brutal dictatorship.

Up to 20 staffers have been laid off at national parks in South Florida, WLRN has learned. At the research center at Everglades National Park, half the team working on restoration efforts is leaving, sources say. Cuts also include staff at Dry Tortugas and Biscayne national parks, and they could affect service during the busy winter season.

U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, María Elvira Salazar, R-Miami and Frederica Wilson, D-Miami Gardens, announced this week they are sponsoring the re-introduction of H.R. 1348, the Venezuelan Adjustment Act, for Venezuelans who entered U.S. before or on Dec. 31, 2021.

President Donald Trump is expected to make an appearance in Miami Beach Wednesday evening, at an investment conference hosted by Saudi Arabia’s affluent sovereign wealth fund. Drivers have been told to expect traffic delays in Miami Beach and Miami.

Conservative Spanish parliament member Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo, in Miami to receive a democracy award, said her government — and President Trump's — should get tougher on Venezuela's brutal dictatorship.

The former Florida senator, traveling to the Central American country and touring the Panama Canal on his first foreign trip as top U.S. diplomat, held face-to-face talks with Mulino, who has resisted pressure from the new U.S. government over management of a waterway that is vital to global trade.

The Trump administration has revoked temporary protected status, or TPS, 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.

Several Florida Democratic congressional members condemned the Trump administration’s earlier this week for revoking a decision by the former Biden administration to protect about 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants from deportation.

The visit by U.S. envoy came as a shock to many Venezuelans who hoped that Presiden Trump would continue the “maximum pressure” campaign he pursued against Nicolás Maduro during his first term.

Rubio's boss, President Trump, says Panama should give the Panama Canal back to the U.S. But Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino said this week that’s “impossible,” and a U.S. military seizure of the canal looks unlikely.