Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that the temporary protected status (TPS) currently being enjoyed by 270,000 Venezuelans will end on September 10. The move affects those Venezuelan migrants who were added to TPS in 2021. (In February, TPS had already been revoked for the more than 300,000 who were added by the Biden administration in 2023.)
The illegals losing their TPS security are entitled to self-deport through use of the CBP Home mobile app, which will grant them a free one-way airline ticket back to Venezuela along with a $1,000 exit bonus.
About the move, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) spokesman Matthew Tragesser said in a statement:
Given Venezuela’s substantial role in driving irregular migration and the clear magnet effect created by Temporary Protected Status, maintaining or expanding TPS for Venezuelan nationals directly undermines the Trump Administration’s efforts to secure our southern border and manage migration effectively.
Weighing public safety, national security, migration factors, immigration policy, economic considerations, and foreign policy, it’s clear that allowing Venezuelan nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is not in America’s best interest.
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