President Trump's new homeland security chief, Kristi Noem, has reversed a last-minute amnesty extension granted by the Biden administration to 600,000 Venezuelan migrants. This decision signals a potential shift towards stricter immigration policies and a pro-freedom foreign policy.
President Donald Trump's new homeland security chief, Kristi Noem, has canceled the Democrats' last-minute amnesty extension to 600,000 economic migrants from Venezuela . This decision will see a faster return of the Venezuela ns to their home country, potentially supercharging pressure for domestic political and economic reform. It will also cut off the migrants' remittances, which have been a significant source of income for Venezuela n families.
The amnesty shift suggests that Trump plans a pro-freedom foreign policy that aims to reinvigorate poor countries and boost beneficial U.S. exports to those nations. \In 2021 and 2023, President Joe Biden's pro-migration czar, Alejandro Mayorkas, granted “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) to two groups of 600,000 Venezuelans who had migrated illegally into the United States after 2018. The status for the 2023 population will formally expire in April 2025, while the status for the 2021 population will expire in September 2025. When their status expires, the migrants will lose their work permits and can be repatriated. The extension would have continued the Venezuelan TPS amnesty until late 2026. This would have forced Trump's deputies to extend or cancel the TPS status in the run-up to the November 2026 midterm election. \Ms. Noem's decision criticizes the move by Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary under Mr. Biden, to extend the protections for Venezuelans in the final month of Mr. Biden's term. The agency generally must decide at regular intervals whether the protections should be extended before they expire. The notice argues that Mr. Mayorkas made his move too early and states that the extension should not remain in effect “given the exceedingly brief period” since it was issued on January 17. A Homeland Security Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, argued that the last-minute extension by the Biden administration appeared to be an attempt to tie the hands of Trump officials. Mayorkas used the program to help many groups of migrants to anchor themselves in U.S. society. For example, Mayorkas granted TPS to roughly 300,000 Haitian migrants. Many also took jobs and housing in Springfield, Ohio, inflicting massive pocketbook penalties on ordinary Americans. Studies indicate that more than one million foreign nationals remain in the U.S. thanks to TPS. In addition, nationals from Hong Kong, Palestine, Lebanon, and Liberia remain in the U.S. through Deferred Enforced Departure (DED). When Biden took office in late January 2021, fewer than 320,000 migrants were in the U.S. as a result of securing TPS. Today, 17 countries have TPS designations: Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Lebanon, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen. Investors and business owners have welcomed the TPS program because it expands the supply of labor. It also increases the number of consumers and apartment renters, leading to shortages and rent increases for ordinary Americans.
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