Trump admin ends deportation protections for massive number of Venezuelans amid illegal immigration crackdown

The Trump administration is ending a deportation shield for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans successful the U.S., opening the doorway to them being deported -- conscionable arsenic President Donald Trump has secured an statement with the socialist state to instrumentality backmost its nationals.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to Fox News Digital that much than 300,000 nationals protected by Temporary Protected Status (TPS) successful 2023 are having their statuses revoked. The New York Times, which archetypal reported details of the move, reported that they volition suffer impermanent presumption 60 days aft the authorities archetypal publishes the notice.

TPS grants extortion from deportation and allows enactment permits for nationals surviving successful the U.S. from countries deemed unsafe for them to beryllium returned. Then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced extensions for TPS for Venezuela, arsenic good arsenic El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine, for an further 18 months past year.

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Army soldiers patrol the U.S.-Mexico borderline astatine Eagle Pass, Texas, connected Jan. 24, 2025. President Donald Trump ordered 1,500 much subject unit to the borderline with Mexico arsenic portion of a flurry of steps to tackle immigration, his spokeswoman said connected Jan. 22. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem past week announced that the hold was being revoked, but this determination would prematurely extremity the presumption altogether. 

Republicans person agelong been skeptical of the program, arguing that it has been utilized excessively broadly, with much than 17 countries designated nether the Biden administration. The archetypal Trump medication chopped down connected the usage of TPS and has indicated it intends to bash the aforesaid successful the 2nd administration.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House borderline czar Tom Homan talk with reporters astatine the White House connected Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Venezuelans were 1 of the apical nationalities coming into the U.S. astatine the tallness of the 2021-2024 borderline crisis, with galore besides coming successful done a abstracted parole argumentation for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans -- a programme present ended by the Trump administration.

On Saturday, Trump said that an statement had been made with Venezuela to instrumentality backmost its amerciable immigrants. Venezuela had started taking backmost amerciable immigrants successful 2023 but stopped successful aboriginal 2024.

"…Venezuela has agreed to receive, backmost into their Country, each Venezuela amerciable aliens who were encamped successful the U.S., including pack members of Tren de Aragua," Trump said connected Truth Social. 

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"Venezuela has further agreed to proviso the proscription back. We are successful the process of removing grounds numbers of amerciable aliens from each Countries, and each Countries person agreed to judge these amerciable aliens back."

The moves travel amid a flurry of efforts by the Trump medication to unafraid the borderline and importantly ramp up the numbers of deportations and removals from the U.S. The medication has ended parole programs, constricted the usage of asylum and deployed the subject to the confederate border.

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Meanwhile, Noem visited the confederate borderline connected Sunday, portion Secretary of State Marco Rubio is presently connected a circuit of Latin America. Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth is heading to the confederate borderline connected Monday.