Trump says Venezuela agrees to receive undocumented migrants captured in US

WASHINGTON — 

U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Saturday that Venezuela has agreed to person each Venezuelan undocumented migrants captured successful the United States and wage for their transport.

"Venezuela has agreed to receive, backmost into their country, each Venezuela amerciable aliens who were encamped successful the U.S., including pack members of Tren de Aragua," Trump said successful a station connected Truth Social.

He said Venezuela has besides agreed to supply transportation.

The Venezuelan authorities did not instantly reply to a petition for comment.

U.S. envoy Richard Grenell met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro successful the South American state connected Friday. Hours aft their meeting, six American hostages were released and returned to the United States from Venezuela.

The announcement of Venezuela's determination to judge the instrumentality of its citizens who were illegally successful the United States comes 1 week aft Trump threatened to enforce tariffs and sanctions aft Colombia refused to judge subject flights carrying deportees.

Colombia reversed its people and agreed to judge migrants pursuing the threats.

"We are successful the process of removing grounds numbers of amerciable aliens from each countries," said Trump, who vowed to ace down connected amerciable migration successful his 2024 statesmanlike campaign.

Trump, a Republican, issued an array of enforcement orders to ace down connected amerciable migration aft taking bureau connected Jan. 20, including actions aimed astatine deporting grounds numbers of migrants successful the U.S. without ineligible status.