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Maria Villarroel

Trump Administration Deports Migrants to Venezuela, Almost Emptying Out Guantanamo

Guantanamo Bay (Credit: Photo credit should read THOMAS WATKINS/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump promised to detain undocumented migrants at Guantanamo Bay as his efforts to crack down unauthorized migration continue. In that context, dozens of Venezuelan migrants who were housed in the detention camp were sent back to their home country in a series of flights that forged an unprecedented pathway for U.S. deportations.

A plane carrying 177 Venezuelan migrants arrived in Venezuela on Thursday, nearly emptying the naval base of the migrants who were sent there after Trump's inauguration. The deportations relied on a stopover in Honduras.

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