WASHINGTON – The Trump administration revoked immigration protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday.

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.

The Trump administration is revoking deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Anand Giridharadas, 46, made the remark Tuesday, as he reacted in real-time to a early morning tweet from newly named head of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of homeland security, got some heat for rattling off dubious statistics during her Senate confirmation hearing Friday.

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she had revoked an extension of Temporary Protected Status for some 600,000 Venezuelans. Former President Joe Biden's administration had extended deportation relief.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday that the Trump administration has revoked a decision that would have protected roughly 600,000 people from Venezuela from deportation, putting some of them at risk of being removed from the country in about two months.

Kristi Noem was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as President Donald Trump's Homeland Security secretary on Saturday, putting into position a key member of the Republican's Cabinet as he launches a wide-ranging immigration crackdown.

Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem and she was born in 1971 in Watertown, in east central South Dakota. The city is in Codington County about 187 miles northeast of the state's capital Pierre. The new Secretary of Homeland Security is married to Bryon Noem.

That’s thanks to House Speaker MIKE JOHNSON. He alone has the discretion to pick the membership of the panel, and over the past few days, he gave it a MAGA makeover.