Almost 200 Venezuelan Illegal Aliens Deported Back Home from Guantanamo Bay
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In a series of flights that created an unprecedented path for U.S. deportations, over 200 Venezuelan illegal aliens who had been incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay were sent back to their homeland. The deportations, which depended on a layover in Honduras where 177 Venezuelans got off a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement flight and boarded a Venezuelan plane headed for Caracas, were confirmed by U.S. and Venezuelan authorities, according to a recent Border Report article.
Deporting individuals who have used up all available legal options to remain in the United States has been a top priority for the Trump administration. As of Nov. 24, ICE reported that about 1.5 million people, including over 22,000 Venezuelans, received final removal orders.
"Venezuela has historically opposed accepting repatriation of its citizens but has recently begun accepting removals following high-level political conversations and an investment of significant resources," federal immigration and military authorities stated in a court filing on Thursday.
In a rare instance of coordination between the two nations that might be leading to more frequent transfers, two weeks ago, two Venezuelan flights transported 190 immigrants straight from the United States to Venezuela.
As of Wednesday, detainees were Venezuelans with final deportation orders, according to the U.S. Justice Department attorneys' court brief on Thursday, which offers the most comprehensive public accounting to date regarding who is being held at the remote Guantanamo Bay military base and why.
According to flight data collected by Tom Cartwright of the advocacy group Witness at the Border, two U.S. government planes traveled to Guantanamo Bay on Thursday from Texas and Louisiana, although it was not clear how many individuals, including any illegal alien passengers, were on board. Later, the plane proceeded to Honduras from Guantanamo Bay, where passengers were detained by Venezuelan officials and taken back to Caracas.
Although Guantanamo's low-security migrant operations center can now house about 2,500 individuals, Trump stated in January that he planned to increase the number of people detained there to 30,000.
The Departments of Homeland Security and Defense "are not currently offering the opportunity for in-person visits to immigration detainees at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay but will continue to evaluate whether to extend this option." This is because of the significant logistical challenges, the availability of other ways to communicate with lawyers, and the short length of time that illegal criminal alien detainees are expected to be held.
On Thursday, Maduro's administration declared that the nation "would always fight terrorism and criminal groups of any kind, while rejecting any attempt to criminalize the nation and its citizens and criticizing the exploitation of these elements for political reasons," according to the Border Report. Despite the Maduro government's claims to have eradicated Tren de Aragua, authorities in a number of nations have confirmed arrests of its members.
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