This South Florida suburb swung to Trump. Now many of its residents are facing deportation
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President Trump’s move to revoke deportation protections for Venezuelans has sparked a sense of betrayal in Doral, Florida, a Miami suburb that is home to more Venezuelan immigrants than any other city in the US.
South Florida’s Venezuelan community has long gathered at the restaurant El Arepazo to mark major milestones. This is where activists waved Venezuelan flags in celebration when President Joe Biden announced deportation protections for immigrants from the country four years ago, and where supporters of the Venezuelan opposition have gathered to hold rallies and anxiously follow election results back home. But the lunch crowd has thinned out since President Donald Trump’s administration moved last month to revoke the temporary status that had allowed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants to stay legally in the US, and announced an agreement with the country’s authoritarian government to restart deportation flights. “You can feel the fear,” said Daniel Oropeza, a Temporary Protected Status holder whose entire family is facing the possibility of deportation, as he sat on the patio outside the restaurant. “You stop doing things that you normally did before because you don’t know for certain if in a couple of weeks you’re going to be able to remain in the country.” Trump’s move has sparked a sense of betrayal in this Miami suburb affectionately known as “Doralzuela” that is home to more Venezuelan immigrants than any other city in the United States. Venezuelan Americans helped deliver Trump a resounding victory in the city, where his margin of victory grew by about 20 percentage points from 2020 to 2024. Voters from the community said they appreciated Trump’s tough line on government abuses in their homeland – and didn’t expect him to deport their relatives. Noel Ginestra voted for Trump, but now his sister, who is a TPS holder, is facing possible deportation. While he still backs the president, he said he hoped the TPS revocation is blocked in the courts.
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