“I have to go out and work. I can’t stay shut in at home. Obviously I am afraid but there is nothing I can do,“ Caldeira, who has been in the US for four years, said in the Miami suburb of Doral, where 40 percent of the population is from Venezuela.
Joe Biden extended TPS for Venezuelans for 18 months just days before Trump returned to the White House in January, citing economic and other crises in the South American country under authoritarian socialist ruler Nicolas Maduro.
But Trump -- whom many Americans of Venezuelan heritage voted for in the 2024 election -- revoked the TPS extension while an appeal proceeds in a lower court.
“Since his term started there has been a kind of persecution of Venezuelans in particular,“ Caldeira told AFP as he sat in El Arepazo, a popular Venezuelan restaurant in Doral.
Sitting around Caldeira, many people said they do not understand how Trump included them in his aggressive campaign to rid America of undocumented migrants.
“There is a huge contradiction because if the US intelligence services assessed that Venezuela is a country where human rights are not respected, how can he send back there thousands of people who left precisely due to political persecution,“ Colina mused.
“Migrating is not a crime. Removing TPS is a crime,“ Maduro said.
Keyla Mendez is not among the Venezuelans whose TPS status expired in April. Hers lasts until August but after the Supreme Court decision she is worried about the future.
“My children are studying. They want their future to be here. They are afraid of going back. We left a situation that was very bad in our country,“ she added.
“We had hoped that this whole process of cleansing would be against the people who deserved it, not against us,“ said Oli Garcia, 42, who runs a printing company in Doral.
“But now I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what is going to happen. I don’t know if I will actually end up growing here or in the end I will have to leave.”
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