The Trump administration denied an extension of deportation protections for almost 350,000 Venezuelan migrants, setting the stage for their removal from the US.

They’d fled their devastated homeland and been granted protected status that allowed them to live and work in the U.S.. Now that will end in April for thousands of them, the new

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday moved to terminate deportation relief for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S., part of President Donald Trump's expanding immigration crackdown.