{"id":7486,"date":"2025-02-20T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/venezuelan-americans-are-about-to-find-out-if-they-hold-real-political-sway\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:53:14","slug":"venezuelan-americans-are-about-to-find-out-if-they-hold-real-political-sway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/venezuelan-americans-are-about-to-find-out-if-they-hold-real-political-sway\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan Americans Are About to Find Out if They Hold Real Political Sway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Republicans worked hard in recent years to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/10\/us\/venezuelans-miami-republicans.html\" title=\"\">court Venezuelan American voters<\/a> in Florida, convinced that their party\u2019s focus on law and order and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/10\/us\/florida-ron-desantis-governor.html\" title=\"\">attacks on socialism<\/a> could win over the fast-growing group. Their efforts <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/21\/us\/miami-hispanic-voters.html\" title=\"\">paid off<\/a> in cities like Doral, west of Miami, where about 40 percent of residents are of Venezuelan origin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many Venezuelan Americans basked in the attention and became devoted to the politicians who bestowed it on them, especially President Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Their admiration has mixed with surprise and hurt in recent weeks, though, after the Trump administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-venezuela-temporary-protected-status.html\" title=\"\">moved to end Temporary Protected Status<\/a>, or T.P.S., for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants in the United States, many of them in South Florida. The T.P.S. program allows migrants from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/humanitarian\/temporary-protected-status\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">certain unstable countries<\/a> to live and work in the United States for a limited time; critics say it has allowed many migrants to stay indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, Venezuelan Americans in Doral and beyond are trying to persuade the White House to change course before the 300,000 migrants lose T.P.S. in April. Their campaign is testing just how much political currency they have with Mr. Trump and other Republicans who had treated them as a key population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Channeling their constituents\u2019 concerns, elected leaders in at least three municipalities \u2014 Miami-Dade County, Miami and Doral \u2014 have passed symbolic measures in recent weeks urging the Trump administration to reverse its decision or find another way to help law-abiding Venezuelans stay legally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So far, few Venezuelans who voted for Mr. Trump are abandoning him. Instead they are walking a fine line, supporting his fight against illegal immigration but contending that most Venezuelans with T.P.S. should not get caught up in it. Even though Mr. Trump derided programs like T.P.S. on the campaign trail, many Venezuelan American voters say they expected any crackdown to focus on unauthorized immigrants with criminal records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nowhere does the situation feel more urgent than in Doral, a city of about 75,000 nicknamed Doralzuela.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Once an out-of-the-way warehouse district west of Miami International Airport, the city has evolved over the last decade or so into an economic powerhouse. Office parks have sprung up, leading to the development of subdivisions, condos, schools and restaurants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump knows Doral well: It is home to his Trump National Doral Golf Club, a point of pride for many Venezuelan Americans. But in interviews last week, several of them described feeling blindsided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In particular, they said, the Trump administration\u2019s suggestion that many Venezuelans with T.P.S. are members of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/22\/nyregion\/venezuelan-gang-aragua-crimes.html\" title=\"\">Tren de Aragua<\/a> gang \u2014 a gross exaggeration \u2014 has stunned them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m a die-hard Trump Republican, but I feel defrauded,\u201d said Isabel Mart\u00edn, a real estate agent and insurance broker who also hosts a Spanish-language radio show in Doral. \u201cSome bad people have come in, but they\u2019re not all Tren de Aragua. There are very good people like you and me, hardworking people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Mart\u00edn, 58, who immigrated 27 years ago, said she still backed Mr. Trump, but had conflicting feelings that she was unsure how to resolve. Last week, she was among a number of Venezuelans present when the Doral City Council passed a measure asking the federal government for a permanent immigration solution for Venezuelans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Mart\u00edn told council members that Doral could lose employers and workers alike if Venezuelan migrants, many of whom own or work for small businesses, lost their protected status.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Councilman Rafael Pineyro, a Republican who introduced the resolution, sought to disagree with the decision to end T.P.S. without antagonizing the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s not something that we\u2019re looking to create a confrontation with President Trump,\u201d Mr. Pineyro, a Venezuelan American who immigrated to Miami when he was 15, said at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rather, he said he hoped to \u201cexplain to the administration about what the real Venezuelan community is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another council member is married to a Venezuelan; a third emigrated from the Dominican Republic. The mayor is Cuban American. The vice mayor, Maureen Porras, is an immigration lawyer who came to Miami from Nicaragua at age 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Porras said in an interview that in recent weeks, anxious Venezuelans had been inundating her law practice with questions about their options. She worries that essential workers may disappear from jobs at Doral\u2019s restaurants and hotels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy fear is that it\u2019s going to disrupt the economy as well as transform our communities, if we start seeing neighbors moving away,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be very disruptive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a public meeting on Thursday, Amaya Ariztoy, a Venezuelan American who has lived in South Florida for 25 years, told the Miami City Commission about her nephew, who came to the United States legally with a student visa and got a master\u2019s degree at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe was working under T.P.S.,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was paying his taxes. And now he\u2019s forced to go back to a country that has no future, and also is a country that is under a dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Venezuelan Americans were aghast when Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, justified the decision to end T.P.S. by saying that conditions had improved in Venezuela. They also bristled when <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/foxandfriends\/reel\/DFaf8JTxU-o\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">she said on \u201cFox and Friends\u201d<\/a> last month that letting Venezuelans with T.P.S. stay would allow them to \u201cviolate our laws for another 18 months,\u201d suggesting that a vast majority were criminals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Republican elected officials in Florida, aware that Venezuelan Americans represent a vocal and growing number of their constituents, have been supportive. Senator Rick Scott said the Venezuelan government continues to pose a threat to the United States. Miami\u2019s three Cuban American members of the state\u2019s congressional delegation wrote Ms. Noem letters urging her to decide whether Venezuelans can remain here on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Miami\u2019s influential Cuban exiles in particular have embraced newly arrived Venezuelans, seeing them as ideologically aligned because both groups fled left-wing leaders. Cubans have long benefited from special immigration privileges such as the Cuban Adjustment Act, which allows them to apply for permanent residency after at least a year in the United States. No such benefit is available to Venezuelans or immigrants of other nationalities, though a Republican congresswoman from Miami has proposed one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The decision to end T.P.S. affects only Venezuelans who received the protections in 2023. Just before Mr. Trump took office in January, the Biden administration extended their temporary legal status until October 2026; Ms. Noem revoked that extension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A separate group of more than 250,000 Venezuelans received T.P.S. in 2021; their protected status is supposed to end in September, and the Trump administration has so far not announced plans to cut it off sooner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShame on every Republican official who\u2019s complicit, especially in Florida, in sending Venezuelans back to a nightmare,\u201d Maria Corina Vegas, a Venezuelan American and Democratic state committeewoman, said in a news conference outside Miami City Hall last week. \u201cYou\u2019re turning your backs on a community that trusted you, that fled tyranny in search of freedom. You will be remembered for this betrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even as Venezuelan Americans voiced their dismay last week, state lawmakers <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/11\/us\/immigration-florida-desantis-feud-republicans.html\" title=\"\">approved legislation<\/a> cracking down on illegal immigration enforcement. When Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, was recently asked about whether he supported ending T.P.S. for Venezuelans, he noted that \u201cthe people that voted for me are not on T.P.S. They are U.S. citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He conceded that the situation in Venezuela was \u201cstill bad\u201d but said that former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had been guilty of \u201cabusing\u201d T.P.S. and that Mr. Trump was \u201cgetting the law right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s going to get control over who is in this country,\u201d Mr. DeSantis added. \u201cYou cannot have a situation where people are just pouring in willy-nilly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gustavo Garagorry, the president of the Venezuelan American Republican Club Miami-Dade, said his support of Mr. Trump remained steadfast. People like him, who immigrated more than 20 years ago, are unaffected by ending the protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPresident Trump is the president of Americans,\u201d he said, \u201cnot the president of Venezuelans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Alain Delaqu\u00e9ri\u00e8re<!-- --> contributed research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle 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