The Colorado Department of Local Affairs has no exact estimate on how many Venezuelans live in Colorado currently. Back in January 2022, it was less than 10,000, but then roughly 40,000 of them arrived later that year and the following to Denver from Texas when the governor sent buses of migrants to Democratic-controlled states across the country.

Caught between President Donald Trump’s threats and a government they don’t trust, Venezuelans are living moment to moment, unsure of what to expect next.

The order, however, was stayed for two weeks, pending word from the Ninth Circuit, which could stay the ruling even longer.

In Venezuela, daily routines seem undisturbed: children attending school, adults going to work, vendors opening their businesses. But beneath this facade lurks anxiety, fear, and frustration, with some even taking preventative measures against a possible attack amid the tension between the United States and Venezuela.

While the US escalates a military threat in nearby waters, Venezuelans say the real enemy of the people is a sharp rise in food prices.

At Via Appia, a deli tucked into a leafy neighborhood in eastern Caracas, the well-heeled customers were loading up one recent morning on the half-turkeys, pecan pies and mashed sweet potatoes. Never mind that Thanksgiving isn’t even a holiday in Venezuela or,

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Window displays advertising 30% discounts and shoes for $20 were not enough to draw throngs of bargain hunters this Black Friday to a popular mall in Venezuela’s capital. Even the newly opened H&M store was virtually empty in the morning.

A new documentary from ProPublica filmmaker Mauricio Rodríguez Pons follows a family trying to hold onto their legal status as the Trump administration targets Venezuelans amid an immigration crackdown.