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The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, rejected this Tuesday the judicial ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that suspends the Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a measure taken during Joe Biden's term to guarantee the orderly and regular migration of Venezuelan people.
"The TPS was a minimal protection they had, and now they've taken it away. I reject and repudiate the withdrawal of TPS as special protection for Venezuelan migration. Migrating is not a crime; removing TPS is a crime, because it is a right they have. Migrating is a human necessity," said the president in a televised work session.
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Maduro held responsible directly for the decision, which affects about 350,000 Venezuelan migrants, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, Representative María Elvira Salazar and what he called "the whole Miami mafia".
"You voted for them in Miami, Venezuelans, Cubans, Colombians; you voted deceived by them. You elected them senators and deputies, and they turned around and stabbed you in the back," he asserted.
This Monday, the highest court in the United States endorsed the decision of the U.S. Government to suspend TPS, which allowed Venezuelan migrants to remain legally within the North American country for humanitarian reasons. The initiative also contemplated the possibility of seeking work in the formal sector of the economy and protected them from deportation.
