Trump administration revokes deportation protections for 600,000 Venezuelans
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to employees at the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday. Credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday that the Trump administration has revoked a decision that would have protected roughly 600,000 people from Venezuela from deportation.
On “Fox and Friends," Noem said that she reversed the decision made by her successor, Alejandro Mayorkas, in the waning days of the Biden administration that extended Temporary Protected Status.
“Before he left town, Mayorkas signed an order that said for 18 months they were going to extend this protection to people that are on temporary protected status, which meant that they were going to be able to stay here and violate our laws for another 18 months," Noem said. “We stopped that.”
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