The Department of Homeland Security announced on Monday that the U.S. government will extend its Temporary Protected Status designation for Venezuelan migrants, providing legal protections through March 2024 for over 343,000 Venezuelans who have come to the United States amid a major economic downturn and political turmoil in the oil-rich South American nation.
Lawmakers in both parties celebrated the extension. "The Biden Administration's decision to extend Temporary Protected Status for eligible Venezuelans in our nation is overdue," Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) said in a press release. "This renewal will grant necessary relief to many who cannot return to their beloved homeland right now because of the Maduro narco-regime's destruction of Venezuela."
