About 350,000 Venezuelans within the U.S. discovered in latest days that their authorized immigration standing is ready to run out in two months. Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem determined to not renew Non permanent Protected standing for this group of Venezuelans, saying it’s not within the curiosity of america.
TPS is for individuals who fled their international locations on account of violence and different security dangers.
A Venezuelan immigrant who lives in Boston and has TPS, a music trainer named Andreina, is scrambling to get a brand new authorized standing earlier than the April deadline.
She instructed WBUR’s Simón Rios, in Spanish translated into English, that she believes the federal government’s transfer is incorrect.
“We pay taxes right here, we work exhausting, now we have Social Safety numbers. And due to that, we’ve been capable of construct a life right here. We got here to the U.S. escaping a dictatorship of a magnitude you possibly can solely perceive by experiencing it,” she stated.
WBUR agreed to make use of solely Andreina’s first title, due to her immigration standing.
The termination of TPS comes as President Trump has continued to label Venezuelans as a risk. Andreina says that’s a false stereotype.
“The president is utilizing this narrative about Venezuelans being criminals, and it offers the typical citizen the fitting to offend us and see us as sub-humans,” she stated. “The one distinction between me and an individual who was born right here is the randomness of life — nothing greater than that.”
Julio Henríquez, an immigration and human rights lawyer in Boston, says the ending of TPS can have large ramifications for the neighborhood right here, the place hundreds of Venezuelans have settled over the previous decade. He known as the choice “utterly arbitrary and capricious.”
Henríquez spoke with Simón Rios on WBUR’s All Issues Thought of.
This phase aired on February 7, 2025.
