The 2 -year -old girl separated from her parents for us, deportation, arrives in Venezuela

A 2 -year -old girl separated from her parents for deportation on Wednesday in Venezuela, where her mother was deported from the United States, a measure that the South American country has repeatedly denounced as a kidnapping.

Maikelys Espinoza arrived at an airport outside the capital, Caracas, along with more than 220 deported migrants.

The images broadcast on state television showed the First Lady of Venezuela, Cilia Flores, carrying Maikelys at the airport. Later, he showed Flores delivering the girl to her mother, who had been waiting for her arrival at the Presidential Palace along with President Nicolás Maduro.

The United States government had affirmed that family separation last month was justified because the girl’s parents allegedly have links with the Train de Aragua gang based in Venezuelan, which President Trump designated a terrorist organization earlier this year.

The child’s return has been “a battle every day and today we have a great victory,” said Venezuelan Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, at the airport on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

The girl’s mother was deported to Venezuela on April 25. Meanwhile, the US authorities sent their father to a maximum security prison in El Salvador in March under the invocation of Mr. Trump of a 18th century war law To deport hundreds of immigrants.

For years, Maduro’s government had mainly rejected the entry of deported immigrants from the United States, but since Trump assumed the position this year, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including about 180 that passed up to 16 days in the United States naval base in the Bay of Guantanamo, Cuba, have been deported to their country of origin.

Maduro thanked Mr. Trump on Wednesday for the return of the little boy, Agence France-Presse reported. Upon receiving the girl in the presidential palace in Caracas, Maduro thanked Mr. Trump for a “deeply human act.”

The Trump administration has said that Venezuelans sent to Guantanamo and El Salvador are members of the Aragua train, but has offered little evidence to support the accusation.

Maduro thanked Mr. Trump on Wednesday and his sent by special missions, Richard Grenelll, for allowing Maikelys to meet with his mother in a “deeply human” act. Grenell met with Maduro in Caracas shortly after Trump assumed the position.

“There have been and there will be differences, but it is possible, with the blessing of God, advance and solve many problems,” Maduro said, referring to the deep divisions between his governments and Mr. Trump. “I hope and I aspire that we can also rescue the father of Maikelys and the 253 Venezuelans who are in El Salvador.”

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