The decision means Venezuelans in the U.S. could be made to return to their home country which is enduring political upheaval, starvation, crime, violence and a mass exodus of residents fleeing the crisis and the government of Nicolás Maduro.
The administration of President Donald Trump, who had been gaining support among some Hispanics for his stand on Venezuela, isn't willing yet to grant temporary protection from deportation to Venezuelans.
“President Trump cannot have it both ways. He cannot warn Americans that Venezuela is so dangerous they should avoid traveling there and then turn around and tell Venezuelans in the U.S. they are forced to return,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said. The administration told the senators there may be other relief available for Venezuelans and pointed them toCuccinelli also suggested that legal challenges to Trump’s authority to end TPS for other immigrants “makes the decision to exercise discretion in the first place considerably more complicated and more akin to a permanent status, rather than temporary.”
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