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Deportation: Trump administration revokes protected status for Venezuelans
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
President Donald Trump’s administration said Wednesday it was revoking protection from deportation for more than 600,000 Venezuelans in the United States, as it highlights crime by a limited number of migrants.
The people of this country want these dirt-bags out. They want their communities to be safe,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said as she announced the decision on Fox News.
“We are going to follow the process, evaluate all of these individuals that are in our country,” she said.
Former president Joe Biden had extended temporary protected status, or TPS, for another 18 months just days before Trump returned to the White House last week pledging to carry out a mass deportation of migrants.
The United States grants TPS to foreign citizens who cannot safely return home because of war, natural disasters or other “extraordinary” conditions.
Trump sought to end the program during his first term but was stymied by legal opposition.
Trump campaigned highlighting criminal incidents by undocumented migrants, although statistically immigrants are less likely to commit crime than native-born Americans.
Trump said during his campaign that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United States.
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Biden’s administration had expanded TPS to cover more than a million people from El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine, Venezuela and other selected nations to allow them to remain legally in the United States.
On day one of his second term, Trump ordered a review of TPS designations via an executive order titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion.”
According to the Pew Research Center, as of March 2024 there were 1.2 million people eligible for or receiving TPS in the United States, with Venezuelans making up the largest group.
Under Biden, the department said TPS for the Venezuelans was being extended because of the “severe humanitarian emergency the country continues to face due to political and economic crises under the inhumane Maduro regime.”
Nicolas Maduro was sworn into office in January for a third term as Venezuela’s president.
The United States does not recognise his election victory and has offered a $25 million reward for his arrest over narco-trafficking charges.
Trump has vowed a hard line against Maduro and other Latin American leftists, winning support from some Venezuelan-Americans despite his stance on immigration.
AFP
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
Activist Omoyele Sowore, has pleaded not guilty to the cybercrime charges against him at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, had filed the charges against Sowore for calling him an “illegal IGP.”
Sowore had made the remark on his verified X handle.
However, the activist is standing trial before Justice Liman of the FCT High Court and was docked at about 10:00 am when the charges were read to him.
When the charges were read, Sowore pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Meanwhile, several of his followers had protested in front of the court over Sowore’s arraignment.
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
Five persons have been reportedly killed during an invasion by gunmen at Ajegunle-Powerline community in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.
An eyewitness, Mr Akin Olowolafe, a farmer in the community, told newsmen on Thursday in Akure that five people were allegedly killed during the attack, which happened on Tuesday at about 3pm.
Olowolafe said the gunmen entered the farmlands while people were working and started shooting sporadically in the air, which resulted in the death of five farmers.
According to him, the gunmen usually attack the farmlands on a daily basis around the community, and it has made life unbearable for farmers.
Many farmers in the community have fled their farms for fear of being killed. The attacks are unchecked while their is no intervention from the appropriate authorities.
“The incessant clashes and destruction of farm crops are so worrisome and it has led to boycotting of farms by farmers in the area,” Olowolafe said.
Also, a labourer, Mr Fidelis Daniel, who corroborated the story, said that the corpses had been deposited at the mortuary.
“I was inside the farm too when the incident happened, I just heard the sound of guns, and I immediately ran to my house.
It was even God that saved me too, they would have killed me.
They suddenly came with weapons to destroy our crops and killed five people. Three people from Plateau and two from Kaduna State,” he said.
The Ondo State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP, Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, however, denied the number of casualties.
“There was an attack on the community, and police is still investigating, but I cannot confirm the number of people
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