On Feb. 7, he and other Venezuelan men in ICE detention in El Paso were awakened and told they were going back to Venezuela, Purroy Roldan said. They were transported to Miami and put aboard a military plane – and realized they were actually going to Guantanamo.

The US deported 177 migrants from its military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, to Venezuela on Thursday, officials in Washington and Caracas confirmed.

It’s their second legal challenge in less than a month over plans for holding up to 30,000 immigrants there for deportation.

Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries.

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Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants' passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow.

Honduras on Thursday also facilitated a handoff of deportees between the U.S. and Venezuela from a flight coming from Guantanamo Bay. The migrants arriving in Costa Rica will be bused to a rural holding facility near the Panama border, where they will be ...

The United States deported 177 migrants from its military base in Guantanamo, Cuba to their homeland in Venezuela Thursday, the latest sign of cooperation between the long-feuding governments.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay, in a flurry of flights that forged an ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly a third of the 178 undocumented migrants who have been transported to Guantanamo Bay over the last month have been deemed “low threat,” according to a court filing by the ...

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) Trump has said Guantanamo Bay, also known as “Gitmo ... mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Panama and Costa Rica turning into a ‘ black hole’ for migrants ...