Summary
Venezuelan migrants in Florida feel betrayed after the Trump administration moved to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 300,000 people.
Many Venezuelan-Americans, who backed Trump in 2024, now fear deportation despite their contributions to the U.S. economy.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem justified the decision by alleging Venezuela sent criminals to the U.S., a claim community leaders reject.
The policy shift coincides with Trump officials negotiating with Venezuela’s authoritarian regime, sparking criticism from Republican lawmakers and concerns among other TPS-protected immigrant groups.
What were they expecting ?
They thought he’d get rid of “the bad ones”, and forgot that, to the MAGA base, they are ALL “the bad ones”.
Top that off with ICE quotas meaning they’ll go after low hanging fruit e.g. Folks who are law abiding tax payers, and you end out with brown people who wore red hats getting sent back to their home country.