Here Are Trump's Options for Venezuelan Illegals

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : If anything, Trump has amassed the most expertise in Latin America in its foreign policy cabinet that any American president has had in recent times.
51% : Moreover, Trump is quite likely to move forward with his plan to eliminate the humanitarian parole program, from which 117,000 Venezuelans have benefited.
46% : According to NBC, Trump also wants Mexico to accept non-Mexicans deported from the United States.
45% : In his second term, however, Trump might prefer a more transactional approach.
44% : Yet Trump still has other options at hand.
43% : None of the three above options provides Trump with an easy solution; all three could backfire and bring additional issues.
41% : Trump already tried this approach in his first term, and Maduro is still in power.
39% : Nevertheless, if Trump is able to moderate some of their more hawkish impulses, they are the kind of people who may convince Venezuela and other Latin American governments to collaborate in making Trump's deportation policy a reality.
35% : Maduro knows full well a military intervention is off the table, so why would he simply do what Trump wants him to do?The Venezuelan regime might therefore need a little further pressure to be convinced to accept deportees.
31% : Trump could try to convince other countries such as Colombia to receive the migrants in exchange for aid, but it seems unlikely that any Latin American country, some of which have received over a million Venezuelan migrants will be up for the task.
30% : Accordingly, the legal, logistical, and practical scale of the deportation operation proposed by the Trump administration might be significantly more complex than initially thought, especially when considering that Venezuelans represent only a fraction of the illegal immigrants in the U.S.It is quite likely that Trump will try a combination of strength and negotiation with third countries.
29% : Thus, it would not be strange to see Trump sitting down and negotiating with Maduro, leaving previous confrontations in the past.
28% : It's hard to imagine what the Maduro regime thinks of Trump, but it certainly does not believe he is weak.
27% : In his first administration, Trump took a confrontational approach to Maduro, even privately discussing the possibility of a military intervention, and supporting Juan Guaidó as interim president when Maduro stole the 2019 presidential election in Venezuela.
27% : Venezuela was a popular issue back then, to the point that Trump provided DED (Deferred Enforced Departure) to Venezuelans as a lame duck in 2021, which is a similar status to Temporary Protected Status (TPS), something that Biden would eventually grant Venezuelans in the U.S.Today, Venezuelan migrants are seen as an issue for the Republican base, and the number of Venezuelans illegally crossing the U.S. border has skyrocketed.
27% : This also means that if Trump does not renew the program, which is quite likely, thousands of Venezuelans might be subject to deportation if their asylum applications are denied.
26% : One of the main campaign promises of Donald Trump was the mass deportation of millions of illegal immigrants.
24% : How will Trump be able to deport the hundreds of thousands Venezuelans who crossed the southern border illegally?
23% : A quid pro quo approach has failed in the past with Biden, and there is no reason to think it would not fail with Trump.
23% : But getting Mexico to agree to such a plan might not be easy, especially considering that Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum is more hostile to Trump than her predecessor Andrés López Obrador, who, despite being in the ideological antipodes of Trump, generally enjoyed good relations with him.
20% : Trump did this in the past with Venezuelans, as in 2020 it was reported that between January and March of that year, the Trump administration had deported around 180 Venezuelans, mostly through Trinidad and Tobago.
19% : Trump, however, seems to understand that solving the illegal immigration issue requires more than a wall on the southern border.

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