Venezuela

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has terminated the parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans and says parolees are encouraged to self-deport immediately. NBC6’s Briana Nespral reports.

South Florida is home to the largest Cuban and Haitian communities in the U.S. and the largest home to Venezuelans in the world. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced its termination of the parole program for Cubans, Hatians, Nicaraguan’s and Venezuelans. NBC6’s Jamie Guirola reports

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has terminated the parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans and says parolees are encouraged to self-deport immediately.

President Donald Trump’s new ban and restrictions on travel to the U.S., affecting a total of 19 countries, took effect on Monday. The new regulations include a total ban on the entry of Haitian nationals and restrict the travel of Cuban and Venezuelan nationals in the interest of national security, according to the White House. South Florida is home to the...

Nationals of 12 countries will be blocked from entering the United States, and those of seven other countries will be barred from coming into the country permanently or under several visa programs.

The Supreme Court gave the green light to the Trump administration to revoke the temporary legal status of more than half a million immigrants who came under a parole program instated by the Biden administration. NBC6’s Sophia Hernandez reports

Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections. The move was made to make sure that the employees were not in violation of the law, Disney said in a statement Friday. The 45 workers across the company...

As a business owner in the largest Venezuelan community in the United States, Wilmer Escaray is stressed and in shock. He is unsure what steps he should take after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to strip legal protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants. Escaray owns 15 restaurants and three markets, most of them in Doral, a city of...

Five members of Venezuela’s political opposition have left the Argentine diplomatic compound in their country’s capital, Caracas, where they had sheltered for more than a year to avoid arrest and were in the United States.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but said they must get a court hearing before they are taken from the United States.

Wilmer Escaray left Venezuela in 2007 and enrolled at Miami Dade College, opening his first restaurant six years later. Today he has a dozen businesses that hire Venezuelan migrants like he once was, workers who are now terrified by what could be the end of their legal shield from deportation. Since the start of February the Trump administration has ended…

A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

A Venezuelan official says Venezuela will once again accept repatriation flights from the United States carrying its deported nationals, after reaching an agreement.

El Salvador is agreeing to accept from the United States about 300 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang for one year.

White House ends licenses that allow Chevron to pump and export Venezuelan oil, a move lawmakers and activists call a win. NBC6’s Hatzel Vela reports

The Trump Administration is doing an about-face, now saying it does not want regime change in Venezuela. NBC6’s Hatze Vela reports

Two Venezuelan planes have returned home with about 190 Venezuelans deported from the United States.

The Trump administration on Thursday seized a second plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government that is currently in the Dominican Republic.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s order affects 348,202 Venezuelans living in the U.S. with Temporary Protected Status slated to expire in April. NBC6’s Hatzel Vela reports

News of the decision threw Venezuelans living and working in the U.S. into turmoil.