The decision could strip 600,000 Venezuelans of deportation protections and leave many Venezuelans in Houston vulnerable to immigration enforcement.

With immigration crackdown efforts ramping up, some countries under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) have also been revoked, causing residents to have to return home despite unsafe conditions like ongoing conflict or environmental disasters.

The move to revoke the extension of temporary protected status would make hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans eligible for deportation.