Florida Republicans resist Trump ending TPS for Venezuelans
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Al Jazeera on MSNUS Supreme Court clears way to end TPS for Venezuelans: What it means?The United States Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to revoke the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) granted to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, paving the way for their deportation.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) emphasized the positive contributions of Venezuelan immigrants and urged people not to generalize based on isolated criminal activity.
Luis Cortes Romero a DACA recipient and immigration lawyer with Novo Legal explains implications of Supreme Court ruling to allow Trump administration to cancel protected status for Venezuelans. Trump officials asked the justices to lift a lower-court order that barred the administration from ending TPS for Venezuelans while litigation continues.
The Supreme Court's ruling letting the Trump administration revoke TPS for about 350,000 Venezuelans may have wrenching effects on Florida's economy.
"Without Temporary Protected Status, if somebody never applied for asylum, they are in fact eligible for deportation, and they're at risk for deportation," said Erendira Rendon, vice president for immigrant justice at the Resurrection Project.
When the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday the Trump administration could strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans while litigation continues in the lower courts, the move sent shockwaves.
The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to
When TPS ends, those with pending asylum applications can legally remain in the U.S. while awaiting a decision. Many Venezuelans have been waiting for years for their asylum cases to be resolved. For them, the end of TPS will have little immediate effect, as they can continue to stay legally while their applications are processed.
Trump has moved to strip Temporary Protected Status from thousands of Venezuelans living legally in the U.S., and they now could face imminent deportation.
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Roughly 50K Venezuelans who arrived in Chicago over the last 2 years are in limbo after Monday's SCOTUS ruling.
South Florida immigration attorney on end of protections for Venezuelans 02:48. A Supreme Court decision has stripped legal protections for more than 350,000 Venezuelan migrants l