Doral, FLA. (AP) – As the owner of the company in the largest Venezuelan community in the United States, Wilmer Escaray feels emphasized and in shock. Not sure what steps must take after High Court He allowed President Donald Trump to relieve the legal protection against hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants.
Escaray owns 15 restaurants and three markets, most of them are located DoralThe city of 80,000 people known as “Little Venezuela” or “doralzula”. At least 70% of 150 Escaray employees and many of its customers are Venezuel’s immigrants TemporaryAlso known as TPS.
Supreme Court on Monday annulled a federal judge’s decision This suspended the plans of administration to end TPS for 350,000 Venezuelans and potentially exposed them to deportation.
D doralzula, a city surrounded by expanding Miami, highway and Florida Everglades, is coped with the Supreme Court’s decision. Like many owners of businesses with Venezuelan employees, Escaray lacks direction. He does not know how long his employees will have a legal authority or if he can help them, he said.
“The impact on business will be really difficult,” said Escaray, 37 -year -old Venezuelan American who came to the US to study in 2007 AO six years later opened his first restaurant. “I don’t know what I’m going to do yet. I have to discuss with my team with my family to see what the plan will be.”
TPS allows people to live in the US legally and work here, because their original countries are considered dangerous to return because of a natural disaster or civil dispute. Trump’s administration said immigrants were poorly proven after Biden administration dramatically expanded the designation.
Immigration Lawyer Evelyn Alexandra Batista said that the Supreme Court did not specifically deal with the extension of working permits based on TPS and some work authorizations remain in force. However, she warned that there was no guarantee that they would remain valid because the Supreme Court could change it.
“This means that both employers and employees should examine all other alternative options because TPS should never have been permanent,” said Batista, who received hundreds of calls from TPS recipients and companies looking for advice in the months since Trump returned to office.
Among the possibilities they examine are visas for extraordinary abilities, investment visas and agricultural visas.
The US business immigration coalition estimates that TPS holders add $ 31 billion to the US economy through wages and spending strength. There are no specific estimates of the impact of Venezuelans, although it is the largest percentage of TPS recipients.
They work in hospitality, construction, agriculture, health care, retail and food services.
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