Venezuelan TPS

While the court’s ruling on Friday is again temporary, it means hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrations are at risk of immediate deportation as litigation continues

Thousands have returned since immigration policies tightened under President Trump. Unable to afford safer routes, migrants are taking dangerous boat journeys from Panama to Colombia. The United Nations has urged authorities to protect these migrants from criminal networks.

Despite Venezuela's brutal dictatorship and historic humanitarian crisis, the Trump administration will end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for almost a quarter million more Venezuelan migrants next week.

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.

Cuban-American Republicans, U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar and state Sen. Ileana Garcia, are openly criticizing President Trump's immigration policies.

The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Department of Homeland Security's request for an emergency stay as they appeal. The court wrote that the government has “not demonstrated that they will suffer irreparable harm absent a stay.”

The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was set to expire April 7 after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reversed protections granted by the Biden administration.

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.

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.

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Carlos Vecchio said, "we need more time to include more Venezuelans" for Temporary Protected Status — and blasted Venezuela's authoritarian regime.