Venezuela

A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

A Venezuelan official says Venezuela will once again accept repatriation flights from the United States carrying its deported nationals, after reaching an agreement.

El Salvador is agreeing to accept from the United States about 300 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang for one year.

White House ends licenses that allow Chevron to pump and export Venezuelan oil, a move lawmakers and activists call a win. NBC6’s Hatzel Vela reports

The Trump Administration is doing an about-face, now saying it does not want regime change in Venezuela. NBC6’s Hatze Vela reports

Two Venezuelan planes have returned home with about 190 Venezuelans deported from the United States.

The Trump administration on Thursday seized a second plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government that is currently in the Dominican Republic.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s order affects 348,202 Venezuelans living in the U.S. with Temporary Protected Status slated to expire in April. NBC6’s Hatzel Vela reports

News of the decision threw Venezuelans living and working in the U.S. into turmoil.

President Donald Trump’s administration is ending protections that shielded roughly 350,000 Venezuelans from deportation, leaving them with two months before they lose their right to work in the U.S. NBC6’s Laura Rodriguez reports

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the United States with Temporary Protected Status face an uncertain future.

According to government documents obtained by The New York Times, the Trump administration has ended TPS for nearly 300,000 Venezuelans. 

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months have freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met with a senior Trump administration official.

A senior Trump administration official has traveled to Venezuela to urge President Nicolás Maduro’s government to take back deported migrants who’ve committed crimes in the U.S. and release a handful of imprisoned Americans, a U.S. official said Friday.

The Trump administration has revoked the extension of the Temporary Protected Status program until October 2026 for some 600,000 Venezuelans who were legally in the United States. NBC6’s Lorena Inclan reports

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced an executive order to stop the 18-month extension approved by former Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Surveillance video caught the moment a Miami attorney from Venezuela says he received threatening messages after asking Sen. Marco Rubio to investigate whether a Venezuelan soccer player with ties to the government should be allowed into the United States.

The victim believes the threats were in response to his and other colleagues’ requests to Sen. Marco Rubio to investigate soccer player Matías Lacava’s “entrance to the U.S.”

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in Friday for a new term, extending his increasingly repressive rule in the face of renewed protest. NBC6’s Hatzel Vela reports

The Department of Homeland Security says about 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 El Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months.