DORAL, FLA. (WSVN) – As thousands of temporary protected status holders from Haiti who are living in the United States receive a reprieve, thousands of Venezuelan nationals are working toward a similar extension of legal protections.<\/p>\n
TPS has been a major focus this week in South Florida, which is home to thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans. An appeals court on Wednesday night issued a court order extending Friday\u2019s deadline<\/a> of TPS protections for Haitians until Monday.<\/p>\n Now Venezuelans are also calling for their protections to be reinstated.<\/p>\n South Florida\u2019s Venezuelan community is asking the Trump administration to have a change of heart. TPS holders and advocates said they will be gathering and organizing at the Aloft by Marriott Hotel on Northwest 107th Avenue in Doral. Organizers said they will be talking about the need to have TPS reinstated.<\/p>\n The administration ended TPS for Venezuelans last year. Many are set to lose their legal status in October, putting them at risk for deportation to a country dealing with disaster.<\/p>\n The Venezuelan community\u2019s call to have TPS reinstated comes as Friday marks the one-month anniversary since two catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes<\/a> hit the country and left more than 5,000 people dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Haitians across the country and in South Florida are facing the same fight.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are being used as a ping-pong, like a political ping-pong,\u201d said Miami-Dade District 2 Commissioner Marleine Bastien. <\/p>\n Local leaders on Thursday said the appeals court order is not enough<\/p>\n \u201cWhat are they supposed to do in three days? This is very cruel to them,\u201d said Bastien.<\/p>\n