The Trump administration has ended the extension of a program that provides protection for some 600,000 Venezuelan nationals living in the United States, an official said on Jan. 29.
“We are withdrawing the directive on temporary status for Venezuelans,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said during an appearance on Fox News.
Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Jan. 10 extended the Temporary Protected Status for the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to 2026.
The program enables people from certain countries, in this case Venezuela, to legally stay in the United States. It does not provide them with a path to citizenship, although repeated extensions of the protection regularly occur….