The Trump administration revokes the protections of the Venezuelans in the United States

The Trump administration revoked temporary protected status, or TPS, for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the United States, leaving the population vulnerable to potential expulsion in the coming months, according to government documents obtained by the New York Times .

This decision, President Trump, the first to withdraw from such protections during his second term, indicates that he plans to continue a repression against the program which began in his first administration, when he sought to end the status Migrants from Sudan, Salvador and Haiti, among others. He was blocked by federal courts who challenged the way he defeated the protections.

During his first mandate, when Mr. Trump’s administration ended the protections for migrants in Salvador and Haiti, officials authorized people affected to maintain their status for 12 to 18 months before its end.

This time, the administration decided to make changes more immediate. People under TPS of Venezuela who received the protections in 2023 will lose their temporary status 60 days after the government has published the notice of dismissal. The republican criticisms of the program said that it had been used to allow migrants to stay much longer than expected and that it has gone from something temporary to a more permanent arrangement.

The opinion indicates that more than 300,000 Venezuelans had TPS until April.

Another group of more than 250,000 Venezuelans has protections until September and will not be affected, but the decision suggests that them and others under TPS could be in danger of losing their status in the future.

The termination also increases the number of people without any formal immigration status in the United States while Mr. Trump tries to carry out a mass expulsion effort. The decision to revoke the protections could face legal challenges of the rights of immigrants who expected such a decision.