Washington – Homeland Security Secretary Christie NoM said on Wednesday that the Trump administration canceled a decision, which would have saved about 600,000 people from Venezuela from exile, which threatened to remove some from the country in about two months .
NoM signed a notice, which in reverse of a step by his predecessor, Alejandro Mekorus, to expand the temporary protected position in the days of Biden administration. This change is immediately effective and comes between a group of tasks as the Trump administration works to create good on the promises of cracking illegal immigration and carrying out the largest mass exile in American history.
“Before leaving the city, Macorus signed an order, stating that for 18 months they were going to increase this security for those who are on temporary protected status, which meant that they lived here and lived here and We were going to be able to violate our laws for another 18. Months, “Nom told” Fox and Friends “.
“We stopped it,” NoM said.
Experts and advocates said that immediate effect will be uncertainty and fear among the affected people.
The 41 -year -old single mother, who requested TPS in 2023 and after reaching the US in 2024, requested TPS in 2023, “I am legally here and I am afraid of legally arriving here and I am afraid and I have come legally. ” , “I am distraught, seeing how I can legally live here.”
Añez said he left Venezuela as he feared arresting to work as an independent news reporter for Venezuela’s site. She now works as an office manager in Texas and said that returning home is not an option.
“I can’t enter Venezuela because my life is in danger,” she said.
More than 7.7 million Venezuela people have left their country since 2013, when its economy was exposed and President Nicolas Maduro took over. Most settled in Latin America and Caribbean, but after epidemic, migrants rapidly make their places on America
The desire of Venezuela is expected to be pushed to migrate to the wishes of the better living situation and their policies.
Prior to the presidential election last year, a nationwide survey of Venezuela -based research firm Delphos showed almost a quarter of the population whether Maduro was re -elected. Earlier this month, Maduro was sworn in for the third six-year term despite reliable evidence that he lost the July election by two-and-one margin.
Under the Biden administration expansion, security for Venezuela was extended by October 2026. Now it is for two different designations – one that ends one in this April and September.
The people of Venezuela will lose their ability to work in the US and there will be a risk of being deported.
NOEM has till Saturday to decide what to do about the group whose security is ending in April and for those who are ending in September till 12 July. If she does nothing, security automatically increases for one and six months.
The US does not have diplomatic relations with Venezuela, limiting exile options.
Federal rules allow the extension to finish quickly, although it is rarely done, and groups sued when Trump took steps to end security during his first term.
A advocacy group, the National TPS alliance, said on Wednesday that it is ready to challenge the decision in the court.
The Congress in 1990 formed TPS to prevent exile to countries suffering from natural disasters or civil struggle, giving people the authority to work in an increase of up to 18 months at a time.
About 1 million migrants from 17 countries are preserved by TPS, including Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine and Lebanon. Venezuela is one of the biggest beneficiaries.
The TPS designation gives people legal rights to be in the country, but does not provide a long -term route to citizenship. When they are finished, they depend on renewing the government’s position. Critics have said that over time, renewal of protection situation automatically becomes automated, even if it is happening in the country’s country.
Apart from Venezuela, Biden administration also increased the security living in the US to over 230,000 Salvador, 103,000 Ukrainians and 1,900 Sudani in the US.
Nom did not say what would happen to him, and the DHS notice only refers to the people of Venezuela.
The policy change was first reported by the New York Times on Tuesday.