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- Dec 7, 2021
Venezuelan migrants are legally allowed to enter the United States under Temporary Protected Status thanks to…Donald Trump.Does anyone know why he changed his tune on Venezuela? When he had that cringey interview with Elon Musk, he said that if he lost he election he would move there because it's such a great place. Now he's talking about deporting those evil Haitians to Venezuela. Was it simply because Maduro refused to (pretend to) kiss his ass?
Yes, the Venezuelan gang members he is threatening to deport are here legally, just like the Haitians are. He had a chance during his presidency to end their TPS, and he didn’t, along with the TPS of a lot of other countries, including Sudan and a good lot of Muslim countries.
My personal instinct about this is that he believed that the Venezuelan population will vote for him. And he may be right - Miami-Dade County in Florida, long safely Democrat in Presidential elections, flipped to red thanks to the population of older, conservative Latinos. Venezuelans are amongst them. I’m not sure if the same will happen this year. I remember a clip of Trump campaigning in Miami literally saying something like, Venezuelans, I don’t care if you’re illegal, vote for me anyway, but god knows it’s lost in the mountain of bullshit he spouts every day.