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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Civil rights attorneys sued the Trump administration Saturday to prevent it from transferring 10 migrants detained in the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, their second legal challenge in less than a ...