Countries cannot be forced to take back citizens the U.S. government wishes to deport. The U.S. government can threaten a "recalcitrant" country with visa sanctions or other actions, as Trump did recently with Colombia. Cuba and Venezuela are two countries with citizens in the U.S. that generally have refused to accept deportees.

The Trump administration this week revoked an 18-month extension on the Temporary Protected Status designation for Venezuelans in the U.S.

A senior Trump administration official has traveled to Venezuela to urge President Nicolás Maduro’s government to take back deported migrants who’ve committed crimes in the U.S. and release a handful of Americans imprisoned,

The Trump administration’s decision to revoke the recent extension of Temporary Protected Status granted to Venezuelans by former President Joe Biden could affect hundreds of thousands living and working in the United States,

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.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem cut the duration of deportation protections for 600,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. as the Trump administration searches for ways to ramp up removals of Venezuelan nationals,

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 Trump administration is revoking an extension that grants deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States through October 2026, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

A senior Trump administration official traveled to Venezuela to urge President Maduro’s government to accept deported migrants, a U.S. official said.

It could give the Trump administration a destination to send thousands of Venezuelan migrants whom Caracas won’t take back.

A special envoy is set to meet with President Nicolás Maduro, a shift from the hard-line stance of Trump's first term.