University of Central Florida student among plaintiffs suing Trump administration over Venezuelan immigrant policy
A national immigrant rights group and several Venezuelan plaintiffs, including a University of Central Florida student, are suing the Trump administration over its move to cancel the temporary protected status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants.
The federal lawsuit filed by the National TPS Alliance and individuals including Cecilia Daniela González Herrera, a UCF student living in Kissimmee, was filed Feb. 19 in the Northern District of California. Many of those affected by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s efforts to vacate the Venezuelans’ TPS status live in the Sunshine State, where an estimated 400,000 people who fled the regimes of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro settled.
TPS status gives about 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants the ability to live and work legally in the nation, and the loss of such protections, which could come as early as the first week of April for many immigrants, would subject them to deportation, according to the lawsuit.

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