Venezuela's main opposition coalition, Plataforma Unitaria Democrática (PUD), warned Sunday that the recent termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the United States leaves an estimated 600,000 Venezuelans vulnerable to detention and deportation and urged the Trump administration to offer a different protection channel for them.
TPS protected Venezuelans who fled the country's prolonged crisis and had been residing in the U.S. since 2021. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in October in favor of the Trump administration's move to revoke the protection, ruling that left roughly 350,000 Venezuelans immediately at risk of deportation, while protections for an additional 250,000 expired November 7.
