A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the government to release a Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status holder who was wrongfully detained in January and was almost put on a deportation flight to El Salvador.

According to a federal report published in December 2024, nearly a third of the roughly 1.1 million TPS recipients live in Florida. Of those, 59% are Venezuelan and 35% are Haitian, with the other 6% coming from other TPS nations.

The temporary program allows Venezuelans to work lawfully in the U.S. and avoid deportation while their country is riddled with crime and unrest.

A federal district judge in San Francisco on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from terminating deportation protections for 350,000 Venezuelan migrants.

The law known as TPS provides work authorization and rights to live in the United States if the Homeland Security secretary deems conditions in their home countries are unsafe for return.

The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday granted plaintiffs' motion to postpone Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem's attempted removal of

US district judge blocks Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Venezuelan migrants over lack of evidence - Anadolu Ajansı

The judge ripped Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for using negative — and false — stereotypes to strip temporary protected status from hundreds of thousands of people who fled violence-torn Venezuela.