DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has announced a cancelation of Biden-era protections for Venezuelan migrants as the administration ramps up deportations.

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.

In a series of executive orders Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and directed the state’s criminal justice agency to identify land and facilities that could be used for detaining and deporting undocumented migrants.

There was a large protest in Gainesville Wednesday night with community members decrying the crackdown on illegal immigration. Protesters stretched from Henry Ward Way to Downtown Gainesville, rallying against President Trump's immigration policy and recent ICE raids.

Protesters gathered in the Navajo capital to raise awareness of what they said were threats to their freedoms.

Rep. Sylvia Garcia emphasized that everyone in the country, regardless of their legal status, is protected by the Constitution.

Laken Riley Act: President Trump signed his first bill into law, and it closely tracked his agenda on immigration. The bill directs the authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — of specific crimes if they are in the country illegally. Read more ›

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s air transportation branch, ICE Air Operations, runs deportation flights. The agency uses commercial or charter planes to fly migrants internationally to their countries of origin or internally to other U.S. detention centers.

Deportation flights between the U.S. and Colombia have resumed following a dispute between the two countries that nearly led to a trade war.

The Trump administration’s first flight deporting Brazilians involved aborted takeoffs, sweltering heat, emergency exits and shackled deportees on a wing.

A top aide to President-elect Trump, Stephen Miller, says the new Trump Administration will launch mass deportations immediately, at “light speed.” As a candidate, Donald Trump pitched mass deportation a much-needed redo of a post-World War II roundup authorized by President Eisenhower.