'Beyond betrayal.' Venezuelans in Florida are angry at Trump immigration policy

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"MIAMI — Venezuelan migrants in South Florida say they feel betrayed by a Trump administration decision to end legal protections for hundreds of thousands of people who fled dictatorships and sought refuge in the U.S."

"The move by the Trump administration is a turnabout of a long-standing U.S. policy that has extended TPS (temporary protected status) to more than a half-million Venezuelans. On NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she believed the designation had been abused. 'Remember,' she said, 'Venezuela purposely emptied out their prisons, emptied out their mental health facilities and sent them to the United States of America.'"

"Venezuelan Americans say that's simply not true. Venezuelans started migrating in large numbers to the U.S. in the 1980s. The numbers surged in recent decades as people fled the political and economic turmoil of the authoritarian regimes of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro."

"Nearly 400,000 people who left Venezuela now live in Florida. Adelys Ferro, the director of the Venezuelan American Caucus, says, 'We are human beings who work here, who are small business owners.' Ferro says Venezuelans exiled here "actually believe that the TPS was the right way to get legal in the United States, to have our work permits, to have a social security number, to be able to buy a house.'"

"Florida's largest Venezuelan population is in Doral, a Miami suburb. Ferro and other activists held a press event there Monday but didn't want any TPS recipients to speak out. They were worried they could be targeted for deportation by federal immigration authorities."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285470/venezuelans-florida-tps-immigration-trump

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Several of my Venezuelan friends in Miami, people who fled the Chavez and Maduro economic and political upheavals, are literally seething about Trump's vilification of their community, and the disappearance of innocent individuals without any due process. They're extremely angry about Noem's claim that "Venezuela purposely emptied out their prisons, emptied out their mental health facilities and sent them to the United States of America."

Miami-Dade media is really covering this story. Many of these Miami Venezuelans voted for Trump. Now "el leopardo que se come las caras" has come to Miami.

[Aviation Pro]

1. FA

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[UpInArms]

2. LEFP

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3. Los leopardos que se comen las caras

[jrthin]

4. These selfish people deserve everything they get! Unless as he was going

to screw with other immigrant and not them, they'd be okay with that.

[Midnight Writer]

5. I guess they missed his whole campaign when he clearly and repeatedly stated his intentions.

[tulipsandroses]

6. It boggles the mind. Biden gave them TPS

but they turn around and vote for a xenophobic bigot. Biden supported unions, many turn around and vote for the guy against unions and workers’ rights. Biden’s policies helped farmers, they turn around and vote for Trump who caused them financial burdens in his first administration.
The stock market was booming under Biden, many investors turned around voted for the chaos candidate, despite warnings from economists that his plans would destabilize the economy.

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8. Miami's corporate rightwing spanish language media has been telling listeners Democrats are "communists" for years.

'Disinformation Transformed Miami Politics. This Radio Station Is One Reason Why.'

"Radio Mambí birthed Cuban politics in south Florida. Now it’s a platform for Trumpism — even though it’s owned by Democrats."

"If you tuned in to Radio Mambí 710 AM in 2020, you might have heard a caller questioning the results in Georgia and Pennsylvania, demanding recounts or denouncing the election as a fraud. In 2021, you might have heard the hosts repeat claims that Black Lives Matter and Antifa members were behind the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — and you definitely would have heard claims that President Joe Biden was a socialist. In 2024, listeners tuning in heard callers and hosts calling Vice President Kamala Harris a Marxist extremist, sharing concerns about the 'humanitarian crisis' in Springfield, Ohio, or spreading theories about voters being registered without proof of citizenship — with the hosts rarely stepping in to correct the record."

"You’d never guess that Mambí, the focus of a national controversy about disinformation in Latino communities, is now owned by Democrats."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/29/radio-mambi-miami-maga-00190415

All day, every day, on Radio Mambi it's "Los Democratas son comunistas." Now Radio Mambí "has fallen to No. 2, outpaced by Venezuelan current events radio Actualidad 1040 AM." It's nothing but propaganda and disinformation 24/7. It does boggle the mind.

[patphil]

7. And one more group discovers that actions have consequences.

They came here to escape tyranny, only to vote a tyrant into office.
How ironic.

[Ritabert]

9. FAFO