The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.

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.

Civil rights attorneys sued the Trump administration Saturday to prevent it from transferring 10 migrants detained in the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and filed statements from men held there who said they were mistreated there in conditions that of one of them called “a living hell.

ICE said on Thursday that 177 of the detainees were being returned to Venezuela. Migrants being held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are now being permitted to speak to their attorneys ...

Attorneys filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Saturday to halt the transfer of 10 migrants detained in the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. This marks their second legal challenge in under a month against plans to use the facility for large-scale immigrant detention before deportation.

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 ...

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