{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3436", "Wasserman Schultz Discusses Trump Caribbean Crisis with Venezuelan Community Leaders", "2025-10-30", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "House", "FL", "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "W000797", "wassermanschultz.house.gov", "wassermanschultz", "https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Sunrise, FL \u2013 Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) held a roundtable discussion to hear from leaders in South Florida\u2019s Venezuelan community about their concerns over Trump\u2019s assault on law-abiding immigrant families and failure to promote a peaceful, democratic transition of power in Venezuela.\n\nWatch the full press conference here.\n\n\u201cTrump\u2019s presidency has been an unending nightmare for Venezuelan Americans here and around the country. He has ripped away temporary protected status from law-abiding Venezuelans and thrown countless families into terror through raids conducted by agents in masks. He has characterized all Venezuelans as criminal dirtbags and alien enemies. And he has killed at least 57 people, most of whom were Venezuelan, with airstrikes on boats, with no evidence, due process, or Congressional authorization,\u201d said Wasserman Schultz. \u201cAnyone who believes that Trump will promote democracy in Venezuela should look at what he\u2019s done to democracy here.\u201d\n\nSouth Florida has the largest concentration of Venezuelans in the United States. Many Venezuelans in the U.S. fled violence and hardship at the hands of the Maduro regime, which continues to crush dissent, criminalize opposition, and engage in extrajudicial disappearances and murders.\n\nNow, many Venezuelans are horrified to see these tactics emulated by the Trump Administration. Trump has sent masked agents to arrest law-abiding TPS recipients, launched airstrikes on boats without any evidence or Congressional authorization, and allowed Maduro to fund his repression of Venezuelans by lifting oil sanctions.\n\nWasserman Schultz was joined by Venezuelan American Caucus co-founders Adelys Ferro and Luis Fernando Atencio, as well as several other Venezuelan local leaders.\n\nAs co-chair of the Congressional Venezuela Democracy Caucus, Rep. Wasserman Schultz has sponsored legislation to restore TPS for Venezuelans, provide a path to permanent status for law-abiding Venezuelan immigrants, and prohibit oil companies from funding Maduro\u2019s criminal dictatorship. She also recently led 137 House and Senate Democrats in an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to stop Trump\u2019s illegal termination of TPS.\n\n####\n\nSunrise, FL \u2013 Hoy, la congresista Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) convoc\u00f3 una mesa redonda para escuchar a los l\u00edderes de la comunidad venezolana del sur de Florida sobre sus preocupaciones sobre el asalto de Trump a las familias inmigrantes que respetan la ley y el fracaso en promover una transici\u00f3n pac\u00edfica y democr\u00e1tica del poder en Venezuela.\n\n\"La presidencia de Trump ha sido una pesadilla interminable para los venezolanos estadounidenses aqu\u00ed y en todo el pa\u00eds. Ha arrebatado el estatus de protecci\u00f3n temporal a los venezolanos respetuosos de la ley y ha sumido en el terror a innumerables familias a trav\u00e9s de redadas realizadas por agentes enmascarados. Ha caracterizado a todos los venezolanos como criminales y enemigos extranjeros. Y ha matado al menos a 57 personas, la mayor\u00eda de las cuales eran venezolanas, con ataques a\u00e9reos contra barcos, sin pruebas, debido proceso o autorizaci\u00f3n del Congreso\", dijo Wasserman Schultz. \"Quien crea que Trump promover\u00e1 la democracia en Venezuela deber\u00eda mirar lo que le ha hecho a la democracia aqu\u00ed.\"\n\nEl sur de Florida alberga la mayor concentraci\u00f3n de venezolanos en Estados Unidos. Muchos venezolanos en EE. UU. huyeron de la violencia y las penurias a manos del r\u00e9gimen de Maduro, que contin\u00faa reprimiendo la disidencia, criminalizando a la oposici\u00f3n y perpetrando desapariciones y asesinatos extrajudiciales.\n\nAhora, muchos venezolanos est\u00e1n horrorizados al ver que la Administraci\u00f3n Trump imita estas t\u00e1cticas. Trump envi\u00f3 agentes enmascarados de la migra para arrestar a beneficiarios del TPS que cumpl\u00edan la ley. Lanz\u00f3 ataques a\u00e9reos contra embarcaciones sin ninguna prueba ni autorizaci\u00f3n del Congreso. Y permiti\u00f3 que Maduro financiara la represi\u00f3n contra los venezolanos al levantar las sanciones petroleras.\n\nA Wasserman Schultz se unieron los cofundadores del Caucus Venezolano Americano, Adelys Ferro y Luis Fernando Atencio, as\u00ed como varios otros l\u00edderes locales venezolanos.\n\nComo copresidente del Caucus para la Democracia de Venezuela del Congreso, Wasserman Schultz ha es autora de legislaci\u00f3n para restaurar el TPS para los venezolanos, crear un camino hacia el estatus permanente para los inmigrantes venezolanos y prohibir que las compa\u00f1\u00edas petroleras financien la dictadura criminal de Maduro. Tambi\u00e9n lider\u00f3 recientemente a 137 dem\u00f3cratas de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes y el Senado en un escrito de amicus curiae instando a la Corte Suprema a detener la terminaci\u00f3n ilegal del TPS por parte de Trump.\n\n####", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3436"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.598387189209461, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}