Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is ending protections that shielded roughly 350,000 Venezuelans from deportation, leaving them with two months before they lose their right to work in the U.S.

The Trump administration moved Monday to nix temporary deportation protections for an estimated 300,000-plus Venezuelans living in the United States. Why it matters: Revoking Venezuelans' Temporary Protected Status (TPS) puts those people at risk of deportation amid Trump's nationwide immigration crackdown.

The Trump administration has eliminated deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States, making them vulnerable to be sent back to the South American country in 60 days when the protection expires.

They’d fled their devastated homeland and been granted protected status that allowed them to live and work in the U.S.. Now that will end in April for thousands of them, the new

The Trump administration ends protections halting the deportation of approximately 350,000 Venezuelans in the US. This move impacts Temporary Protected Status, expiring in April, affecting half of the Venezuelans under this protection.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will terminate temporary removal protections for several hundred thousand Venezuelans in the US.

The Trump administration has revoked the protective status of 300,000 Venezuelans, which could result in their deportation, reports "The New York Times." President Donald Trump’s administration has decided to revoke the protective status of 300,

The Trump administration is reversing a Biden-era extension of the Temporary Protected Status program for Venezuelan migrants. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more.

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

Some 600,000 Venezuelans protected from deportation in the closing days of the Biden administration now face an uncertain future.