The Trump administration’s decision Sunday to end the protection from deportation for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the United States is based on the notion that conditions have improved in the South American country to the point that its citizens no longer need to be safeguarded from a repressive dictatorship.

They’d fled their devastated homeland and been granted protected status that allowed them to live and work in the U.S.. Now that will end in April for thousands of them, the new

Recent polls show that Venezuelans are overwhelmingly opposed to sanctions, with 65% against those implemented during Trump’s first term. This widespread refusal represents an essential viewpoint: locals believe that the cantions bring more pain than solutions.