DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced the cancellation of TPS for Venezuelans on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning, claiming the Biden administration’s move to extend protections for Venezuelans meant “they were going to be able to stay here and violate our laws.”
However, TPS holders are in the country legally, have work permits, have been fingerprinted and have been vetted by the federal government.
“Today, we signed an executive order within the Department of Homeland Security and a direction that we are not going to follow through on what he did to tie our hands, that we are going to follow the process evaluate all of these individuals that are in our country, including the Venezuelans that are here and members of TDA,” she said.
Noem claimed that during the New York City enforcement operation that people thanked her for getting the “dirtbags” off the street.
She also said they’re not ruling out using Gitmo for Venezuelans, Cubans, and other migrants whose countries refuse to take them back.
– ABC News’ Armando Garcia