2 days ago · SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The U.S. government used an 18th-century wartime law to deport more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants earlier this month to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to the country’s maximum-security gang prison.. And while a federal judge in Washington tries to determine whether the U.S. government defied his order to return the migrants while they ...

4 days ago · In court filings, the plaintiffs cite Mr. Trump’s nativist remarks against Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants during the election campaign, as well as Ms. Noem’s comments likening some ...

Sep 21, 2023 · The Biden administration will make hundreds of thousands of migrants from Venezuela eligible for work permits and deportation protections under an expansion of the Temporary Protected Status...

As of 2023, approximately 770,000 Venezuelan immigrants lived in the United States, accounting for slightly less than 2 percent of all 47.8 million immigrants in the country. The economic and political instability that has driven Venezuelans abroad since 2015 was further accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feb 11, 2025 · Two Venezuelan state airliners arrived Monday with repatriated migrants deported from the U.S. The reception takes place more than a week after a senior U.S. official visited Caracas on behalf of President Donald Trump’s administration. (AP Video by Juan Arraez)

3 days ago · The first flight carrying Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States lands in to Venezuela, after the two governments reached an agreement Saturday to resume repatriation flights.

5 days ago · A Venezuelan official says Venezuela will once again accept repatriation flights from the United States carrying its deported nationals, after reaching an agreement. ... Maduro’s government has mostly refused the entry of immigrants deported from the U.S. Those deportations have sharply picked up since Trump took office on Jan. 20. In recent ...

5 days ago · The Venezuelan government attributed a willingness to receive the flights to the plight of Venezuelan migrants sent to notorious prisons in El Salvador with little to no due process.

4 days ago · The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. Immigration and Customs, confirmed that a deportation flight to Venezuela had landed and that it was carrying 199 people.

Feb 21, 2025 · CARACAS, Venezuela — Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay in a flurry of flights that forged an unprecedented...