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We still have a lot to contribute to this country if we are given the opportunity,
At work, my wife and I work at a school for children, and during meetings, we're told that the county protects us, that they won't allow agents to enter the school,
[We ... We have] a lot of anxiety. We never thought it would be this intense,
Honestly, the stress and anxiety are overwhelming, especially because I'm here with my wife and my 8-year-old daughter,
Pablo, whose family was among the first Venezuelans to receive TPS, told Newsweek This is an outrage! Venezuela is currently a violent dictatorship. Thousands have fled to Florida to join family members here through the TPS Program,
Florida Democratic Party Representative Darren Soto wrote Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter I walk with faith, praying. I know I'm legal, I carry my work permit with me, and I know when my documents expire,
Pablo, who applied for a TPS extension just last week, said In some ways, we are used to sudden political changes because, in Venezuela, uncertainty was constant—policy shifts, economic fluctuations, currency devaluation, and insecurity. When we arrived here, we felt some relief and stability,
So, if I were forced to leave the U.S., I couldn't even return directly to Venezuela. I would have to first travel to another country that has a Venezuelan Embassy, apply for a special permit within 72 hours, and only then could I go to Venezuela,
The people of this country want these dirtbags out. They want their communities to be safe,
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said as she announced the decision on Fox News Unfortunately, millions of us around the world are forced to escape from the regime of Nicolas Maduro,
We are going to follow the process, evaluate all of these individuals that are in our country,
Before he left town, Mayorkas signed an order that said for 18 months they were going to extend this protection to people that are in Temporary Protected Status, which meant they were going to be able to stay here and violate our laws for another 18 months, ... And we stopped that today."
Noem said, announcing the move on "Fox and Friends." We know that it has been abused in the past, and that there’s many people from other countries that are affected as well, ... We’re going to make sure that we fix it so that it’s utilized in the right way.”
By taking this action, Secretary Noem is throwing over 600,000 into a state of ongoing bureaucratic limbo,
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, told the paper Additionally, there is no evidence, thus far, of cells in the United States cooperating with one another or with other criminal groups,
according to Insight Crime As Tren de Aragua has expanded, it has opportunistically infiltrated local criminal economies in South America, established transnational financial operations, laundered funds through cryptocurrency, and formed ties with the U.S.-sanctioned Primeiro Comando da Capital, a notorious organized crime group in Brazil,
TdA has not ‘taken over’ the city,
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman and Council Member Danielle Jurinsky said in a joint statement at the time They have followed the migration paths across South America to other countries and have set up criminal groups throughout South America as they follow those paths, and that they appear to follow the migration north to the United States,
said Britton Boyd, an FBI special agent in El Paso, Texas, CNN previously reported For the members of the groups themselves, the penalties don’t change very much, though prosecutors may be more energetic in getting the maximum sentence for you and there could be less room for plea-bargaining,
