Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, many in South Florida, lose TPS after Friday

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S. will lose Temporary Protected Status at the end of the day Friday, leaving many of them vulnerable to deportation to a homeland in extreme turmoil.

Losing the protection: a group of about 268,000 Venezuelans who became eligible for TPS in March 2021 under the Biden administration.

The loss of TPS means that large swaths of the Venezuelan community will find themselves without a legal immigration status or work authorization at a time when the U.S. is weighing whether to attack targets in Venezuela. The Trump administration has been blowing up boats in the Caribbean and Latin America’s Pacific coast, claiming they are carrying drugs.

Venezuelans left without TPS may now be forced to return to a country plunged in a humanitarian crisis and economic turbulence, exacerbated by political repression — and now also facing the possibility of war with the world’s largest military superpower.

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