The event comes shortly after Trump envoy Richard Grenell met the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.
Deportation flights from the US to Venezuela have resumed as a part of American President Donald Trump’s long-promised anti-immigration push.
Two Venezuelan planes, which collectively had been carrying roughly 190 individuals, left a US military base in El Paso, Texas, on Monday sure for the South American nation.
Aside from a quick interval below the Biden administration in October 2023, deportation flights from the US to Venezuela have been halted for years.
On account of a extreme financial disaster and political turmoil below the rule of authoritarian chief Nicolás Maduro’, nearly eight million Venezuelans left the nation between 2014 and 2024.
From October 2023 to September 2024, Venezuelans accounted for the second highest variety of “encounters” of any nationality on the southern US border, based on US Customs and Border Safety.
The resumption of deportation flights comes shortly after Trump’s Particular Envoy Richard Grenell visited Caracas and met with Maduro, after which six People had been free of Venezuelan custody.
On Monday, the White Home shared {a photograph} of Grenell overseeing the boarding of migrants onto one of many two Conviasa flights, and Grenell himself took to X to thank Trump for the deportations.
“Two planes of unlawful immigrants left El Paso at this time headed to Venezuela — paid for by the Venezuelans,” he wrote.
Venezuelan state media additionally lined the arrival of the flights.
“That is the world we wish, a world of peace, understanding, dialogue and cooperation,” Maduro stated.
In an earlier assertion, the Venezuelan authorities stated it needed to repatriate 1000’s of its residents who’ve emigrated lately.
As a part of Trump’s broader clampdown on migration, flights have began bringing immigrants to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Nonetheless, a federal decide in New Mexico on Sunday preemptively blocked the switch of three Venezuelan males to the US navy base there.
Legal professionals for the lads stated that their purchasers “match the profile of these the administration has prioritised for detention in Guantanamo, i.e. Venezuelan males detained within the El Paso space with (false) fees of connections with the Tren de Aragua gang.”
