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(NewsNation) — A level with astir 200 undocumented migrants landed Sunday successful Venezuela as the South American state resumed accepting repatriation flights from the United States.
The accomplishment came aft the U.S. authorities reached an statement with President Nicolás Maduro, who suspended repatriation flights earlier this period erstwhile the Treasury Department pulled Chevron’s licence to export Venezuelan oil.
The craft that landed had 199 undocumented migrants aboard, a Department of Homeland Security authoritative tells NewsNation. They said the radical included members of Trend de Aragua, the pack that the Trump medication has designated arsenic a violent organization.
The landing comes a week aft the Trump medication sent much than 200 alleged pack members, astir of them Venezuelans, to a maximum-security situation successful El Salvador.
Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela's Assembly and Maduro’s main negotiator with the U.S., said the resumed repatriations to Venezuela would warrant “the instrumentality of our compatriots to their federation with the safeguard of their Human Rights.”
Rodríguez said his state would enactment connected getting the “brothers kidnapped successful El Salvador” returned to their home.
Trump claims astir of the deportees sent to El Salvador were TdA members, which helium considers an invading force. He has sought to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that allows a president to summarily deport non-citizens during wartime.
A national justice issued a impermanent bid halting the deportations nether the 18th-century law, but the Trump medication allowed the flights to proceed past weekend. Now, the Justice Department is astatine loggerheads with the justice implicit however that occurred.
Trump’s borderline czar, Tom Homan, told NewsNation the Trump medication volition respect the judge’s ruling while continuing migrant deportations utilizing different means.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
