Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday that his government will send a plane to Mexico on Thursday to retrieve approximately 300 Venezuelan migrants, mostly women and children, who he claims fled the United States fearing persecution.
The decision comes amid the Trump administration's intensified immigration enforcement policies, which have led to the deportation of Venezuelans suspected of gang affiliations, including more than 200 which were sent to El Salvador's CECOT mega prison.
