The Trump administration is allowed to strip deportation protection from some 350,000 Venezuelans.
That’s after the Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that blocked the administration from removing Venezuelans in the U.S. with Temporary Protected Status — or TPS.
Aid worker Dora Rodriguez says she’s helping about two dozen Venezuelan families in Tucson.
"People who are coming from a country that they don’t have rights, they don’t have a voice. So what they were seeking in America is to be free to do better in life," she said.
A few dozen nationalities are given TPS because of war, economic insecurity or natural disaster in their home countries. Rodriguez says Venezuelans have been bracing for this change and some are applying for other, more permanent immigration processes, like asylum.
"With TPS they got their work permit right away, and they were already working legally, and now a few of them have to renew, and that’s being denied," Rodriguez said.
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In a weeklong series, KJZZ looks at Arizona’s connection to the Japanese internment policies that were instituted following Pearl Harbor, and how it ties into the broader story of racialized public policy. Gabriel Pietrorazio joined The Show for a closer look at the series. -
That includes more than 11,000 non-Mexican deportees, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. -
The Pinal County Attorney’s Office announced this week that it’s joining certain violent-crime task forces led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The same deal with the Phoenix Police Department was canceled more than a decade ago. -
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have accused Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva of “faking outrage” over her protest at an ICE raid west of downtown Tucson last week. -
Long before World War II, the U.S. Army rounded up Native Americans onto reservations — drawing in their new boundaries. And in Arizona, the federal government once again looked to those lands for another minority population — Japanese Americans — also forcibly rounded up by the military after the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941.
