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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Emmanuel Damas, 56, died Monday at Honor Health hospital in Scottsdale after complaining of a toothache in mid-February in ICE custody. -
Emmanuel Damas, 56, was in the process of seeking asylum after entering the U.S. in 2024 on a humanitarian parole program established under the Biden administration. -
ICE has released a 79-year-old Cuban woman from the Eloy Detention Center, after she spent nine months there. Julia Benitez suffers from dementia and was known inside the detention center as "la abuela," or the grandmother. -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says agents arrested more than 20 people in a raid in Phoenix this week near 15th and Peoria avenues. -
President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and said he will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.
