Venezuela's authoritarian president, Nicolas Maduro, blamed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the "Miami Mafia" for the revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for country nationals, days after a Supreme Court ruling paved the way for the Trump administration to conduct hundreds of thousands of deportations of recipients.
"Marco Rubio, Maria Elvira Salazar and the Miami Mafia are the authors of this decision," Maduro said, referring to the Cuban-American lawmaker and other Republican officials of Latin American descent who represent districts of the state such as Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez.
