Florida Senator Rick Scott said on Friday he expects that the meeting between Richard Grenell, Trump envoy for special missions, with Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro will result in the latter "finding a new country" along with other top members of his regime.
President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, is expected to meet with Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro on Friday, just before Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a fierce opponent of negotiations with the Venezuelan leader in the past,
Gov. Ron DeSantis has praised the Trump administration’s decision to remove temporary protections from Venezuelan immigrants and said Florida would follow the federal government’s guidance in handling the fallout.
If hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans lose their TPS, the implications for South Florida probably will be easy to spot. |
The Trump administration’s decision to roll back temporary protected status for Venezuelans living in the U.S. has sparked alarm in the nation’s large expatriate community in South Florida. U.S. Rep.
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More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left their home country since 2013, when its economy unraveled and President Nicolás Maduro took office.
The new president hasn't sounded too enthusiastic about getting involved in the country, but his top diplomatic aides have advocated for "maximum pressure" policies
President Donald Trump continues to advance his agenda with executive actions ahead of a deadline to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico this weekend. Follow for live updates.
More than 2,200 people were detained after Venezuela’s July presidential election, when civil unrest broke out over Maduro’s claim to victory. With dissent firmly squelched, the government has slowly released nearly 1,900 of the mostly poor, politically unaffiliated twenty-somethings.
Former president Joe Biden had extended temporary protected status, or TPS, for another 18 months just days before Trump returned to the White House last week pledging to carry out a mass deportation