2 days ago · William Diaz, a journalist and founder of Casa de Venezuela, a community organization in Orlando, said there were 80,000 Venezuelans on protected status in Central Florida alone.

2 days ago · ORLANDO, Fla. — The Trump administration is ending temporary protected status for Venezuelans, a move that could impact hundreds of thousands of people. The TPS designation gives people legal ...

1 day ago · Nearly 400,000 people who left Venezuela now live in Florida. Adelys Ferro, the director of the Venezuelan American Caucus , says, "We are human beings who work here, who are small business owners."

Jan 30, 2025 · ORLANDO, Fla. — Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans in the United States could be expiring soon after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced protections for Venezuelans that ...

1 day ago · Almost 60% of Venezuelans with temporary protection status live in Florida. Erlinda Mendoza, ... She left Venezuela in 2022 and met her son in Ecuador. Their trek took eight days.

Jan 29, 2025 · ORLANDO, Fla. — The Venezuelan community across Central Florida is on edge. It comes as the Department of Homeland Security removed Venezuela from the list of countries with temporary protected ...

Jan 29, 2025 · Diaz’s family members, who arrived in South Florida with an immigration parole and received TPS status in 2023, are among the more than half a million Venezuelans in the U.S. who are approved ...

So far in 2024, over 310,000 Venezuelans have entered the country, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That follows a 2022 extension of Venezuela’s designation for temporary...

Aug 4, 2021 · ORLANDO, Fla. – Venezuela was once a prosperous and rich country that sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves but for the past two decades, it’s been crumbling with an ongoing political and...

Sep 18, 2022 · Let's turn now to someone who has been working directly with Venezuelan asylum-seekers in Florida. Felipe Sousa-Lazaballet is the executive director of the Hope Community Center near Orlando.