DORAL, Fla. — On a recent rainy afternoon near Miami, Maria Alejandra Barroso made her daily trek to Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church before heading to work and prayed for the Trump administration to succeed in ousting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

“Every day I pray for it to be peaceful and for innocent people to not get hurt,” she said in an interview on Tuesday.

Barroso, 44, a server at a restaurant, emigrated from Venezuela in 2022 and has a pending asylum case. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy changes have stripped legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants and put more of them at risk of deportation . But Barroso said that ending Maduro’s almost 13-year reign is far more important to her than any worries over possible deportation

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