Hundreds of Venezuelans swept up in President Donald Trump's immigration dragnet have reached home after their release from a maximum security

An investment advisor who lives in a Coconut Grove luxury high-rise condo was arrested Thursday on charges of operating a Ponzi scheme and swindling tens of millions of dollars from Venezuelan investors and two Catholic dioceses in the South American country, according to a federal indictment.

Forty-eight Venezuelans have been released under a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Venezuela. A total of 57 political prisoners were freed from Venezuelan jails, including nine Americans. The opposition coalition claims nearly 1,

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday seemed poised to block the administration of President Donald Trump from stripping nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants of protections against deportation, with one judge singling out "arguably racist" comments by the Republican president and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s move to strip the protected status of some 350,000 Venezuelans living the US could be sidetracked by comments she made about them, as a panel of Ninth Circuit judges focused on the question of unconstitutional animus during oral arguments Wednesday.