Trump Revokes Deportation Protections for Over 600,000 Venezuelan Migrants
by Ben Kew Jan. 29, 2025 11:15 am
Kristi Noem sits before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in Washington, DC. on January 17, 2025. – CSPAN screengrab
Donald Trump has revoked deportation protections for over 600,000 Venezuelan migrants.
The revocation was confirmed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in an interview on Wednesday morning.
The order rescinds a previous order from Joe Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, that extended the protections for a further 18 months.
“Before he left town, Mayorkas signed an order that said for 18 months, they were going to extend protection to people on Temporary Protected Status, which meant they were going to be able to stay here and violate our laws for another 18 months,” Noem said. “We stopped that.”
https://www.alipac.us/f12/trump-revokes-deportation-protections-over-600-000-venezuelan-migrants-426524/
