Venezuelan planes sent to US for deportation flights return to country with nearly 200 deportees

Two planes sent by Venezuela returned location Monday with astir 200 Venezuelans who were successful the U.S. illegally arsenic portion of President Donald Trump's wide deportation plan.

The 190 migrants returned to Venezuela signals a imaginable easiness successful tensions betwixt the 2 longtime adversaries and a triumph for the Trump medication arsenic it seeks to person countries instrumentality backmost their citizens recovered successful the U.S. without authorization.

The Conviasa hose flights arrived successful the Venezuelan superior of Caracas from Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army basal successful El Paso, Texas.

"Two planes of amerciable immigrants near El Paso contiguous headed to Venezuela - paid for by the Venezuelans," Trump envoy Richard Grennell, who oversaw the deportations, wrote connected X.

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Two planes sent by Venezuela returned to the state from El Paso, Texas, connected Monday with astir 200 Venezuelans who were successful the U.S. illegally. (AP)

Deportation flights from the U.S. to Venezuela had been stopped for years, but for a little play successful October 2023 nether the Biden administration.

Large numbers of Venezuelans began arriving astatine the confederate borderline successful 2021 and are inactive among the nationalities with the astir radical entering the U.S. illegally, which has made Venezuela's refusal to judge their instrumentality a large hurdle.

Venezuela's newfound willingness to instrumentality backmost the migrants came aft Grennell visited Caracas a fewer weeks ago.

"This is the satellite we want, a satellite of peace, understanding, dialog and cooperation," Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said.

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Venezuelans deported from the United States get astatine Simon Bolivar International Airport successful Maiquetia, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP)

The Venezuelan authorities confirmed the flights earlier connected Monday, criticizing successful a connection the "ill-intentioned" and "false" communicative surrounding the beingness of Tren de Aragua pack members successful the U.S. The connection said astir Venezuelan migrants are decent and hard-working radical and that American officials are attempting to stigmatize the country.

The deportation flights connected Monday came days aft immoderate amerciable aliens were sent to the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp, wherever they are separated from 15 detainees who were already there, including planners successful the Sept. 11, 2001, violent attack.

A national justice successful New Mexico temporarily blocked the Trump medication from sending 3 Venezuelan men to Guantánamo Bay connected Sunday. Lawyers for the trio argued that their clients "fit the illustration of those the medication has prioritized for detention successful Guantánamo, i.e. Venezuelan men detained successful the El Paso country with (false) charges of connections with the Tren de Aragua gang."

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, beforehand left, walks disconnected a level that transported deportees from the United States astatine Simon Bolivar International Airport successful Maiquetia, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP)

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The flights besides came aft Secretary of State Marco Rubio reached agreements with El Salvador and Guatemala for those countries to judge their citizens and U.S. deportees of different nationalities.

Trump said aft Grennell's sojourn that the Venezuelan government had agreed to judge "all Venezuela amerciable aliens who were encamped successful the U.S., including pack members of Tren de Aragua," and wage for their flights home. Half a twelve Americans held successful Venezuela were released astatine the time.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.