Samir Luzardo’s life as an asylum seeker in the United States has been in limbo since President Donald Trump took office again last year. He lost the temporary protected status shielding him from deportation in September. And he has watched with growing unease as the administration deports thousands back to the country he’d fled. Now after Trump ousted Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro on Saturday and declared the U.S. will “run” the South American country temporarily, Luzardo and other Venezuelans are pondering a different scenario: whether things might actually improve enough to return, or deepen the uncertainty around the future of their families.

Source: Washington Post January 04, 2026 17:38 UTC