Sentinel Deviously Credits Biden With Venezuelan Protections

  The Orlando Sentinel deviously credited President Joe Biden with ordering Temporary Protective Status, while ignoring President Donald Trump's nearly equivalent action in January with the signing of a Deferred Enforced Departure memo.

  TPS and DED, both equivalent in effect, allow refugees of certain classes to work and live legally in the United States. The only divergence: TPS derives from congressional legislation and the DED memos stem from the executive branch.

Pictured: Members of the audience wave Venezuelan and American flags as President Donald Trump speaks to a Venezuelan American community in Miami, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2019.

  The Biden administration's recent actions amount to nothing less than pandering to a community with a voting record demonstrating overwhelming for Donald Trump. The Sentinel's article merely serves as propaganda in a bid to undercut the past four years of support for the Venezuelan community by President Trump - whose administration received very little praise or coverage for their efforts from our beleaguered 'local' newspaper.

  Though most Venezuelans remain grateful for the former President's campaign to defy the Maduro regime, some socialist-leaning elements in the Venezuelan community did not see eye to eye with the Trump administration. Leftist Orlando activist William Díaz, founder of Casa Venezuela in Orlando led a protest against Donald Trump in 2019.

  Diaz has sharply criticized his own community for supporting President Trump and stands as an outlier for his recent criticism of the former President: "It has been 6 years of intense daily struggle, even against political barriers created within our own Venezuelan diaspora. Today we see the fruit of the struggle by shedding tears of joy for the achievement," Diaz told El Sentinel Orlando.

  On very few occasions did the Orlando Sentinel reach out to Venezuelans supporting Donald Trump during his tenure in office, while Diaz, an anomoly among Veneuzuelans for his anti-Trump stance, served as the mainstay of El Sentinel's coverage.

  Sadly some things never change: death, taxes, socialism's failures, and the duplicitous, double standards of the Orlando Sentinel.