According to government documents obtained by The New York Times, the Trump administration has ended TPS for nearly 300,000 Venezuelans. News of the decision threw Venezuelans living and working in the U.S. into turmoil.

South Florida’s Venezuelan immigration advocates said Monday they are uniting to fight what they view as “political persecution,” following the Trump administration’s decision to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is ending protections that shielded roughly 350,000 Venezuelans from deportation, leaving them with two months before they lose their right to work in the U.S.