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Nearly 200 Venezuelan illegal immigrants detained in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay have returned home this week on multiple flights after the South American state has expressed their willingness to embrace citizens.
The 177 Venezuelans were on US Customs and immigration enforcement flights that had stopovers in Honduras before landing in Caracas.
The image shows a group of men dressed in grey sweatsuits lined up on the runway waiting to board the plane.
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Venezuelan immigrants who were deported from the US arrived at Simon Bolivar International Airport in McEttia, Venezuela on Thursday. (AP Photo/Christian Hernandez)
Last week, two Venezuelan flights carried 190 illegal immigrants from the United States to Venezuela.
In January, President Donald Trump said he wanted to expand the immigration detention center in Guantanamo to house as many as 30,000 people. The military base is best known for detaining suspects of terrorism following the attack on September 11, 2001.
“Some of them are so bad that we don't want them to come back, so we don't even trust them to hold them, so we're going to send that country to Guantanamo. That's it,” Trump said.
Acceptance by Venezuela could indicate a country's willingness to regularly regain citizens illegally entering the United States.
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Venezuelan immigrants were deported from the United States to Simon Bolivar International Airport in Michaelitia, Venezuela on Thursday, February 20th, 2025. (AP Photo/Christian Hernandez)
“Venezuela has historically resisted accepting citizens' repatriation, but recently began accepting rescue after high levels of political debate and investment of important resources,” federal immigration and military authorities said. It was written in court documents filed Thursday.
The US government claims that Venezuelan immigrants have been transferred to naval bases. Trump has turned the gang into a face of suspicion of the threat posed by immigrants who illegally live in the country.
He officially designated the gang as a “foreign terrorist organization” this week.
Venezuelan immigrants were deported from the United States to Simon Bolivar International Airport in Michaelitia, Venezuela on Thursday, February 20th, 2025. (AP Photo/Christian Hernandez)
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On Thursday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government said, “While it denounces the manipulation of these elements for political purposes and rejects attempts to criminalize the country and its citizens, the country is always of all kinds of things. We will fight terrorism and criminal organizations.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
