The Department of Homeland Security is rescinding recent extensions of migrant protections for roughly 600,000 Venezuelans that would have allowed them to remain in the US with legal work authorization until at least October 2026.

President Trump and his envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, announced the release of the six men on social media.

DORAL, Fla. – Doral is home to a large and typically vocal Venezuelan exile community. Now some on Temporary Protective Status who came to the land of the free to escape Nicolas Maduro’s brutal regime are hiding in the shadows, says Venezuelan-American Caucus Executive Director Adelys Ferro.

The Trump administration Wednesday cut back deportation protections given to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans handed out by President Joe

Six Americans who were being held hostage in Venezuela were freed Friday night following President Trump’s envoy for special missions Richard Grenell’s visit to the South American country.

On a call with reporters Friday, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the U.S. special envoy to Latin America, said Grenell will tell Maduro to take back all the Venezuelan criminals and Tren de Aragua gang members that have been “exported to the United States, and to do so unequivocally and without condition.”

The Trump administration is reversing the Biden administration's decision to extend the Temporary Protected Status program for Venezuelans​ in the U.S.

Nicolás Maduro’s regime on Friday released six American citizens imprisoned in Venezuela after the strongman met in Caracas with President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell.

The Trump Administration is revoking temporary protected status for over 60,000 Venezuelan migrants, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday morning. The newly confirmed DHS secretary slammed her predecessor Alejandro Mayorkas for tying the Trump Administration’s hands and signing an order giving Venezuelan migrants temporary protected status so they could “stay here and violate the laws” for another 18 months.

The Biden administration had extended protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans. The cancellation of the extension could open them up to deportation in the coming months.

Countries cannot be forced to take back citizens the U.S. government wishes to deport. The U.S. government can threaten a "recalcitrant" country with visa sanctions or other actions, as Trump did recently with Colombia. Cuba and Venezuela are two countries with citizens in the U.S. that generally have refused to accept deportees.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has revoked an 18-month extension of temporary protected status for an estimated 600,000 Venezuelan migrants in the United States.