Lawsuits challenge Trump's end to deportation protections for Venezuelans


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  • Friday, 21 Feb 2025

FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan migrants arrive on a deportation flight from the U.S. at the Simon Bolivar International airport in Maiquetia, La Guaira State, Venezuela February 10, 2025. REUTERS/Gaby Oraa/File Photo

(Reuters) -Several Venezuelans and three immigrant rights groups have sued President Donald Trump's administration over its decision to end temporary protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants living in the United States.

The first of two U.S. federal lawsuits was filed in San Francisco on Wednesday by the National TPS Alliance, a group that advocates for immigrants who have been granted temporary protected status, and seven Venezuelans living in the U.S.

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