They’d fled their devastated homeland and been granted protected status that allowed them to live and work in the U.S.. Now that will end in April for thousands of them, the new

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in Florida face deportation after the White House this week ended protections put in place under the Biden administration, saying it would not extend them as part of its broader policy to curb immigration.

Trump's decision to remove Temporary Protected Status means more than 500,000 Venezuelans may be forced to leave the U.S. Venezuelan Americans, many of whom voted for Trump, call it a betrayal.