The United States Government published on Monday (03.02.2025) the memorandum that officially makes the revocation of the Temporary Protection Statute (TPS) for some 350,000 Venezuelans who are in US territory. Various media had advanced the decision of the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, to eliminate this migratory protection for Venezuelans in recent years.
This implies that these people could be subjects of deportation in the coming months. The order, published on the weekend on the government’s website and is effective since this day, points out that Venezuelans who received the TPS in 2023 will be unprotected from the expiration date of this benefit. This is more than half of the almost 600,000 Venezuelans who can live and work in the United States thanks to TPS.
The order indicates that after a review of the “country conditions”, it was determined that the TPS is “contrary” to the “national interest of the US” . Already on Thursday, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, had revoked an extension of the TPS until October 2026 approved during the government of former Democratic President Joe Biden.
Come improvements in Venezuela
The National Security Department ensures that although some difficulties in Venezuela persist, “there are notable improvements in areas such as economy, public health and criminality, allowing these nationals to safely return to their country of origin.” The term of the TPS for those who arrived in 2023 to the United States from Venezuela will be effective 60 days after the publication of the order, that is, around the first week of April.
The TPS is an aid that is granted to citizens of a certain country that have migrated to the United States by a natural disaster or an armed conflict, and allows them to live and work there until the date that the US government considers that they can return in a way Safe. It currently benefits a million people from 17 different countries.
During his first government, Trump tried to end the protections for migrants from several countries, including Haiti, El Salvador and Sudan, but federal courts blocked some of those attempts.
DZC (EFE, Reuters)
