On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump’s last day in office, the White House released one of his last presidential memoranda, in which he granted “Deferred Enforced Departure” to all Venezuelans physically present in the United States as of Wednesday. This historic and unexpected action protects Venezuelans from deportation and grants us legal employment authorization. After a yearslong fight between the Trump administration’s immigration hard-liners who wished to keep immigrants both legal and illegal out of America and the foreign policy hard-liners who desired to protect those fleeing from the brutal Nicolas Maduro regime, Trump finally sided with the latter camp.
By protecting Venezuelan immigrants in America, Trump solidified his record as the president who has done the most to advance the cause of freedom in Venezuela.
