Trump says Venezuela agrees to receive illegal migrants captured in US

The Venezuelan authorities did not instantly reply to a petition for comment. The Republican president’s announcement came the time aft US envoy Richard Grenell met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro successful the South American state connected Friday and brought six US citizens backmost with him.

The Trump medication said the apical goals for Grenell’s travel were to unafraid the merchandise of detained Americans and deporting Venezuelans backmost to their location country. The White House said the high-level sojourn does not mean the United States recognizes Maduro arsenic Venezuela’s morganatic leader. The 2 countries person a fraught caller past marked by breached relations, sanctions and accusations of coup-plotting.

Grenell said determination were nary fiscal oregon different concessions promised to Maduro.

“The lone grant for Maduro was my carnal presence, the archetypal elder US authoritative to sojourn the state successful years,” helium was quoted arsenic saying successful the Wall Street Journal. “It was a large acquisition to him to person a sojourn by an envoy of President Trump.”

Maduro struck a conciliatory enactment aft the meeting, saying helium and Trump “have made a archetypal step. Hopefully it tin continue.”

Trump praised the statement arsenic the latest triumph successful his thrust to get Latin and Central American countries to instrumentality successful amerciable migrants. “We are successful the process of removing grounds numbers of amerciable aliens from each countries, and each countries person agreed to judge these amerciable aliens back,” said Trump.

Last Sunday, the United States and Colombia pulled backmost from the brink of a commercialized warfare aft the White House said the South American federation had agreed to judge subject craft carrying deported migrants. Mexico refused
to judge a US subject deportation formation days aft Trump took office, but said it has received non-Mexican migrants from the United States successful the past week.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Central American nations could besides scope akin agreements with the US to judge deportees from different countries.

Since taking bureau connected January 20, Trump issued an array of enforcement orders to ace down connected amerciable immigration, including actions aimed astatine deporting grounds numbers of migrants successful the US without ineligible status.