A total of 174 Venezuelan migrants Venezuela arrived this Friday on a flight from the state of TexasUSA.
The arrival occurred in the Simón Bolívar International Airportlocated in La Guaira state, where they were received by the Interior Minister of the regime, Diosdado Cabello. The official of the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro He explained that among repatriated people are 148 men, 18 women and 8 children.
Cabello also said that the arrival of Another flight along the daywith approximately 200 more peoplewhich increases to 18 the total number of repatriation flights recently made.
With this new contingent, the number of returned Venezuelans amounts to 3.472according to official data.
The administration of the former president Donald Trump requested the Supreme Court of the United States intervene in your dispute with lower federal courts to raise the suspension at the end of Temporary Protection Status (TPS) For Venezuelan citizens, a measure that would directly affect some 350.000 personas.
The petition was presented by the Department of Justicewhich requested the highest court to revoke the order issued by the federal judge Edward Chenof the district of San Francisco, who had temporarily blocked the termination of the program ordered by the Secretary of national Security, Kristi calls.
“While the order is in force, Noem must allow hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan citizens to remain in the country, despite being convinced that doing so is’ contrary to national interest,” said the lawyers of the department.
He Attorney General, D. John SauerHe argued that the judicial measure represents an inadmissible interference in the Executive Power on immigration and foreign policy. Sauer also stressed that the end of the TPS does not constitute a final deportation ordersince those who lose the benefit could benefit from other legal mechanisms to remain in the country.
He TPS It was granted to Venezuelan citizens as a humanitarian measure, considering that the conditions for a safe return were not guaranteed due to the Political, economic and social crisis in Venezuelaaggravated by the permanence in the dictator’s power Nicolás Maduro.
The decision to suspend the program was announced at the end of February, as part of the first migratory measures of Trump’s new mandate, and was scheduled to enter into force on April 7.
However, Judge Chen ordered to block the execution of the measure after considering that he would have devastating consequences: “Threatens to seriously interrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and cost billions of dollars in lost economic activity”, Wrote the magistrate in his resolution.
Cen also warned that the government had not clearly demonstrated what concrete damage would imply maintaining protection. “Act on the basis of a negative group stereotype and generalize this stereotype to the entire group is a classic example of racism. Venezuelan TPS holders have lower crime rates than the general population,” the judge argued.
(With information from Europa press, AP and Reuters)
