Venezuelans in Utah declared the administration of administration, termination of deportation defense – ksl.com

Salt Lake City – Representatives of the Venezuelan community of Utah are dealing with the federal decision that ends the appointment that allowed some of the country in South America to seek safe refuge in the United States.

In a notice published on Wednesday, Interior Security Minister Christie November writes that he founded the decision to terminate the temporary protected definition of status or TPS, in part of “remarkable improvements” in the country regarding crime and economic and healthcare. She also determined that preserving this designation would be “contrary to national interest”, since the Venezuelans who take advantage of the program are huge resources in the communities where they live.

The change comes into force on April 7 and will affect 348,202 Venezuelans across the country currently covered under the program, which allows them to live and work in the United States and protect them from deportation. Perhaps 250,000 more Venezuelans are covered by a separate temporary protected appointment of the status, which expires on September 10 and is not influenced by the new designation of NOEM, originally announced on February 1.

Despite the disputes of Noem, Mayra Molina and Antonio Valbuena, they challenge the idea that the conditions have improved in Venezuela, sounding others from the Venezuelan communities across the country. They are among approximately 10,000 to 20,000 Venezuelans in Utah, many of whom escaped from the country because of President Nicolas Maduro’s repressive government and Yugo Chavez before.

“As we can see, the conditions have not changed,” said Valbuen, who seeks asylum in the United States and now lives in Heriman. The decision, he said, came as a “shock” for many.

Molina, originally from Venezuela, but now a naturalized US citizen, maintains that the Venezuelans, forced to return to Venezuela, may be closed for betrayal of leaving the country in the first place. More than 7.7 million have left the country in all years in recent years “in search of protection and better life,” according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, most of them are in other Latin America countries.

“This is a really concerned situation,” said Molina, who runs the Venezuelan Union of Utah, who helps to present the local Venezuelan community. The US Census Bureau estimates that there are about 10 657 Venezuela people in Utah with a variety of migrating status, while Molina believes that its number is in the range of 15,000 to 19,000, most of them are covered by the temporary protected status program S

In NOEM’s news, she also cites the presence in the United States of the Venezuelan band Tren de Aragua and the role of the gang members in sexual traffic, police shooting and other criminal activities. Tren de Aragua’s criminal activity is a focus of increasing concern among many leaders of Utah and President Donald Trump, although the degree of presence of the band in Utah remains unclear. Wider, the destruction of immigrants here is an illegal priority issue for Trump.

Molina, however, noted that the strict criminal is checking those who are looking for a temporarily protected status facing US authorities. Moreover, both she and Valbuen have rejected the conclusions that seem implicit in the criticism of some immigrant enemies that crime is a norm among the Venezuelan population in the United States. Most, she said, prefer calls to eliminate immigrants here illegally who have committed crimes.

“And we are disappointed, because the secretary comes out and says,” Oh, yes, all Venezuelans belong to Tren de Aragua, “which is not true,” Molina said. The Venezuelans in the United States generally follow the law, and some have been waiting for the opportunity to normalize their migration status.

While some Venezuelans who lose temporarily protected status may be able to apply for asylum, Valbuena suspects that many will not be lucky after the latest Nov’s last decision, potentially facing deportation. “At that moment they have no other option,” he said.

Some of the local Venezuelan community in Utah is involved in the efforts to write letters to get US lawmakers to take action to help the Venezuelans in the country. The “rethinking” of the conditions of the Trump administration in Venezuela is unfounded and arbitrary, “reads a letter, which is part of the initiative.