President Donald Trump’s administration is set to end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security asserted in an unpublished Sunday memorandum that “Venezuela no longer continues to meet the conditions” for the program,

The Trump administration ends protections halting the deportation of approximately 350,000 Venezuelans in the US. This move impacts Temporary Protected Status, expiring in April, affecting half of the Venezuelans under this protection.

The Trump administration has revoked an extension of deportation protections that the previous Biden administration granted to more than 600,000 Venezuelans in the US.