'Deeply disappointed': Miami lawmakers in D.C. react to court decision on Venezuelan TPS

Source: Miami Herald

‘Deeply disappointed’: Miami lawmakers in D.C. react to court decision on Venezuelan TPS

Nora Gámez Torres
Mon, May 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM EDT 5 min read

In a rare display of bipartisanship, Democratic and Republican members of South Florida’s congressional delegation pushed back against a Supreme Court decision Monday that would allow the Trump administration to revoke temporary protections against deportations for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.

In her most open criticism of efforts to deport legal migrants, Republican U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar of Miami, who is advocating for an immigration reform bill, said she was “deeply disappointed” with the decision.

“Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro also leads Tren de Aragua—a transnational criminal enterprise,” Salazar, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs’ Western Hemisphere subcommittee, told the Miami Herald. “We must not send innocent people back into the grip of a narco-terrorist. We should protect those fleeing tyranny — not return them to it.”

Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose district includes Weston, a Venezuelan stronghold in South Florida, said the court order was “atrocious” because it would allow President Donald Trump to deport “non-criminal” Venezuelans seeking refuge in America from Maduro’s “oppression and tyranny.”

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