Deportations to Venezuela
U.S. judge stops Trump: “Smoke-made of racism”
01.04.2025 – 07:18 a.m.Reading time: 3 min.
The Trump administration continues to pursue migrants in the United States. The reason for her procedure is “completely insufficiently proven”, judges a judge.
A US federal judge has stopped the planned abolition of protection status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans in the United States at an injunction. California Federal judge Edward Chen explained his order by the abolition of hundreds of thousands of people. The government’s plan has a “aftertaste of racism” and incorrectly represented Venezuelans as criminals.
The government announced in January that the temporary protection status TPS (Temporary Protected Status) wanted to cancel for Venezolans on April 7th. The protection status had been extended to more than a million people under Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden, including people from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine.
It was obvious that Minister of Homeland Protection Kristi Noem “made a general negative generalizations about Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries, said Chen, according to the” Washington Post “. As examples, he cited the wrong claims expressed by US President Donald Trump and repeated by NoEM that the majority of Venezuelans in the United States were criminal.
Noem’s justification for the order that she made shortly after her swearing -in was “completely insufficient”. Actions “based on a negative group stereotypical and the generalization of this stereotypical on the entire group” are “the classic example of racism,” argued Chen in his 78 -page judgment.
The injunction issued by the court in San Francisco prevents Noem’s Ministry of Homeland Protection from leaving the protection status on April 7th. The order thus gives those affected time to proceed legally against the project.
In parallel to the legal dispute over TPS status, the Trump government continues to pursue a tough course for deportations.
It was only on Monday that 17 prisoners were deported to El Salvador again, although a federal court had previously prohibited such flights based on a law of 1798. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the deported as “dangerous criminals” and referred to their alleged belonging to the gangs MS-13 and Tren de Aragua.
A video published by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele showed masked soldiers who led the prisoners from a US military plane. The US government had already flown more than 200 suspected members of the Venezuelan gang tren de Aragua in March for the detention according to El Salvador. At that time, too, the “Alien Enemies Act” from 1798 was used, which was actually designed against enemy foreigners in the event of war.
In addition, the US government has been increasingly relying on deportation fees directly to Venezuela since February. After an agreement with Caracas, the third machine ended up with a total of 175 Venezuelans in the capital. According to Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, this was also a head of the criminal gang El Cagón.
However, Cabello emphasized that so far none of the migrants backed up had belonged to the notorious drug gang Tren de Aragua. This is considered a foreign terrorist organization in the United States. Caracas had temporarily hired the cooperation in the event of deportation because, according to Trump, the return commitments had not been met.
Trump had promoted the largest deportation campaign in the history of the United States in the run -up to the 2024 presidential election. The government accuses numerous Venezuelans connections to criminal gangs. Relatives and the Venezuelan government, on the other hand, speak of innocent migrants who are wrongly pursued.
