Flights that left from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Thursday transported nearly 200 illegal immigrants detained on the island back to Venezuela.

President Donald Trump promised loyalists that he’d send the world’s “worst criminal aliens” to Guantánamo Bay. But not all of them fit the label. One of the recent detainees was arrested for biking on the wrong side of the road.

The Trump administration said Thursday it had abruptly deported at least 177 Venezuelan immigrants who had been detained in a newly constructed prison camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The U.S. government and a Venezuelan state airline flew 177 Venezuelan migrants from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras and on to Venezuela on Thursday (February 20), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security said.

The nearly 200 migrants detained at Guantanamo Bay have been cleared out of the military base, with all but one person flown back to Venezuela following successful negotiations with the

ICE officials on Thursday said the 177 migrants are being returned to Venezuela, which is part of the administration's arrangements with the Colombian, Venezuelan and El Salvadoran governments to take in people deported by the U.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement transported 177 migrants from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras for final removal to Venezuela, according to a post on X from the agency.

U.S. authorities have not publicly confirmed the individual identities of immigrants recently transported to Guantanamo Bay. A lawsuit on behalf of ... The court filing notes that “Venezuela has historically resisted accepting repatriation of its ...

Durán Arapé recalled. He said ICE agents told him, "You are going to Venezuela." What followed surprised Durán Arapé: he, along with more than 170 Venezuelan men, were flown to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba naval base for two weeks. NPR spoke to two immigrants ...

Many of the migrants were being kept in a detention facility that has historically held suspected terrorists. They were flown back to Venezuela Thursday after a stop in Honduras.

US and Venezuelan officials confirmed that 177 Venezuelans boarded an aircraft from the Venezuelan-owned airline Conviasa bound for Caracas.