The Venezuela plane returns to the Latin American country with citizens who have been deported from us
Two planes sent from Venezuela returned home on Monday along with nearly 200 Venezuelans who were illegally in the US as part of the president Donald Trump’s A large-scale deportation plan.
The return of 190 immigrants to Venezuela shows the Trump administration’s victory, as tensions between the two long-time enemies eased.
Combiassa Airline flights arrived in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, from Fort Bliss, a US Army base in El Paso, Texas.
“Two illegal immigrants have left El Paso. Today we head to Venezuela, which has been paid by the Venezuelans,” Trump envoy Richard Grennell, who oversaw the deportation, wrote to X.
The two planes sent from Venezuela returned to the country from El Paso, Texas on Monday, with nearly 200 Venezuelans illegal. (AP)
Deportation flights from the US to Venezuela have been stopped for years, except for a short period under the Biden administration in October 2023.
Many Venezuelans begin to arrive at the southern border in 2021, and are one of the nationalities that still have most people Illegal entry into the USmade Venezuela’s refusal to accept their interests a major hurdle.
After Grennell visited Caracas a few weeks ago, a new desire to regain Venezuelan immigration has regained immigration.
“This is the world we want, a world of peace, understanding, dialogue and cooperation,” said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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Venezuelans were deported from the United States to Simon Bolivar International Airport in Michaelitia, Venezuela on Monday, February 10th, 2025. (AP)
The Venezuelan government confirmed the flight early Monday, criticising in a statement the “unclear” narrative surrounding the presence of members of the US Tren de Aragua gang. And what American officials are trying to blame the country.
Monday’s deportation flights resulted in illegal foreigners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a detention camp that has been separated from 15 detainees already there, including the plotters for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. It was done a few days after it was sent.
A federal judge in New Mexico temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan men to Guantanamo Bay on Sunday. The trio’s lawyers argued that their clients “fit the profiles of those who the administration prioritizes for detention in Guantanamo.
Venezuela’s Home Minister Diosdado Cabello leaves the plane carrying the exile from the United States at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Venezuela on Monday, February 10, 2025. (AP)
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The flight was also brought to allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reach an agreement with El Salvador and Guatemala to accept citizens of other nationalities and US deporters.
Trump said after Grennell’s visit. Venezuelan government They accepted “all the illegal Venezuelan aliens encamped in the US, including Tren de Aragua gang members,” and agreed to pay for the home of their flight. Half a dozen Americans in Venezuela had been released at the time.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.