Miami’s ‘Little Venezuela’ fears Trump’s moves against migration
- Doral, Florida, also known as 'Doralzuela', faced deportation concerns on April 5, 2025, due to changing federal policies.
- Since 2014, economic and political turmoil in Venezuela caused about 8 million people to flee, many seeking refuge in the U.S.
- Temporary Protected Status allowed many Venezuelans to live and work in the U.S., but its potential end created fear.
- Wilmer Escaray, a restaurant owner in Doral, stated, "It’s really quite unfortunate to lose that human capital because there are people who do work here that other people won’t do."
- With the expiration of humanitarian parole approaching, and lawsuits pending, the Venezuelan community in Doral faced an uncertain future.
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Doral, Miami's ‘Little Venezuela,' fears Trump's moves against migration
Wilmer Escaray left Venezuela in 2007 and enrolled at Miami Dade College, opening his first restaurant six years later. Today he has a dozen businesses that hire Venezuelan migrants like he once was, workers who are now terrified by what could be the end of their legal shield from deportation. Since the start of February the Trump administration has ended...

Miami’s ‘Little Venezuela’ fears Trump’s moves against migration
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Wilmer Escaray left Venezuela in 2007 and enrolled at Miami Dade College, opening his first restaurant six years later. Today he has a dozen businesses that hire Venezuelan migrants like he once was, workers who are now terrified by what could be the end of their legal shield from deportation. Since the start of February the Trump administration has ended two federal programs that together allowed more 700,000 Venezuelans to l…
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