Venezuelan immigrant couple in Miami’s ‘Doralzuela’ warns U.S. citizen daughter they may have to leave if Trump ends Temporary Protected Status

Wilmer Escaray left Venezuela in 2007 and registered at Miami Dead College, and opened his first restaurant after six years.

Today he has dozens of companies that use Venezuelan migrants as before, workers who are now terrifying what the end of their legal shield could be deportation.

Since the beginning of February, the Trump administration has completed two federal programs that allowed together to form more than 700,000 Veneers to live and work legally in the United States with hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians and Nicaragua.

In the largest Venezuelan community in the United States, people fear what they can face if the lawsuits that aim to fail the government fail. Everything that anyone discusses in “Little Venezuela” or “Dorazuela”, a city of 80,000 people surrounded by Sprrawl, FreeW Illsplays and Florida Everglades.

Deportation concerns in the role of Zoala

People who lose their illegal protection should remain legally at the risk of deportation or return to their homes, which is an inner way to look at the political and economic turmoil in Venezuela.

“It is really unfortunate to lose human capital because there are people who work here that others will not do,” said Eskrai, 37, in a restaurant, “Sabor Fenzolano”.

Spanish is more common than English in shopping centers along the extensive Dora, and Venezuelans feel that they return home but with more security and comfort.

Sweet smell of round, flat atomic lexicon that is sold in many institutions. Stores selling precise gas stations and white cheese used to make shirts and hats with yellow, blue and red lines for the Venezuelan science.

A new life is in danger

John came from Venezuela nine years ago and bought a growing construction company with a partner. He and his wife are in a temporary protected position, or TPS, created by congress in 1990 for people in the United States whose homelands are not safe to return due to natural disasters or civil conflict. Benefits can live and work as it continues but TPS does not carry any way to nationality.

She was born in the United States, their 5 -year -old daughter. John, 37, asks that he be recognized by the first name only for fear of deporting him.

His wife helps in their construction work while working as a real estate medium. The couple told their daughter that they may have to leave the United States. Venezuela is not an option.

John said: “It is painful that the government turns its back on us.” “We are not people who came to commit crimes; we came to work, to build.”

A federal judge ordered on March 31 that the temporary protected situation will remain until the next stage of the legal challenge in the court and at least 350,000 of the Venezuelan who were temporarily rescued. Escaray, the owner of the restaurants, said that all of his 150 employees are almost Venezuelan and more than 100 on TPS.

The Federal Immigration Program, which allowed more than 500,000 Cubans, Venezuelan, Haitians and Nicaragua to work and live in the United States – ends the humanitarian and humanitarian release – on April 24 if the court does not interfere.

Immigration policy

The Venezuelan was one of the main beneficiaries when former President Joe Biden expanded TPS sharply and other temporary protection. Trump tried to finish them in his first term and now the second.

The end of the temporary protection was only generated by a little political reaction between the Republicans, with the exception of three representatives of the Cuban Americans from Florida who called for avoiding the deportation of the affected Venezuelan. Mario Diaz Palart, Carlos Jiminies and Maria Elvira Salazar urged the government to spare the Venezuelas without criminal records of deportation and review of TPS beneficiaries on the basis of each case separately.

The mayor of Dural, the home of Trump’s golf club since 2012, has written a letter to the president asking him to find a legal path for Venezuelan who have not committed crimes.

“These families do not want bulletins,” said Christie Farraja, the daughter of the Cuban exile. “They want an opportunity to continue work, construction and investment in the United States.”

The elite of a country, followed by the working class

About 8 million people have fled Venezuela since 2014, and they first settled in neighboring countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. After Covid-19, they increased their attention on the United States, and they walked into the notorious forest in Colombia and Panama, or flying to the United States with a human conditional release with a financial sponsor.

In the role of the higher degree professionals and businessmen to invest in property and companies when Socialist Hugo Chavez won the presidency in the late 1990s. Political opponents and businessmen who have established small works followed them. In recent years, more low -income Venezuelane came to work in service industries.

They are doctors, lawyers, cosmetics, construction workers and home detergents. Some are homogeneous American citizens or illegally living in the country with children born in the United States. Others in tourist visas, looking for asylum or have a form of temporary situation.

Thousands went to Dural, where Miami International Airport facilitated decades of growth.

There is an atmosphere of uncertainty.

“What will happen? People do not want to return or cannot return to Venezuela,” he said.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

2025-04-07 08:50:00