Venezuelan immigration

Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who spent months in El Salvador's brutal CECOT prison after the Trump administration questionably — if not falsely — accused them of gang membership may soon join U.S. legal action.

The human rights organization's findings are based on interviews with 20 Venezuelan immigrants who were secretly transferred to the base and held for up to 16 days before being deported.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court ruling that maintained temporary protected status for Venezuelans while the case proceeded through court. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco found in March that plaintiffs were likely to prevail on their claim that the administration overstepped its authority in terminating the protections.

From visas to an asylum claim and now to Temporary Protected Status, one South Florida couple has been living with immigration uncertainty for more than a decade. They now face the possibility of being forced to leave in September, while their US-born child could be denied birthright citizenship.

Relatives of more than three dozen Venezuelans sent from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador said their family members were originally told they would be deported to Venezuela but never told they would be shipped to the Central American country, Human Rights Watch reported Friday.

The Pabón family is among the nearly 8 million Venezuelans who have left their country in the last decade, fleeing an authoritarian regime and a collapsed economy — one of the largest population displacements in the world.

Venezuelan-American leaders see a big reason Venezuelan migrants are showing up again at the U.S. border: there aren't enough sponsors for their Biden parole applications.

Of all the problems immigrants need to solve when they settle in the U.S., Yllis Hernandez faced the kind that so often leads to a business."Back in…