Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the US were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay, in a flurry of flights that forged an unprecedented pathway for US deportations. US and Venezuelan authorities confirmed the deportations that relied on a stopover in Honduras, where 177 Venezuelans exited a US Customs and Immigration Enforcement flight and boarded a Venezuelan plane bound for Caracas. The government of President Nicols Maduro said it had requested the repatriation of a group of Venezuelans who were unjustly taken to the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. With the request accepted, an aircraft with the state-owned airline Conviasa picked up the migrants from Honduras. ICE confirmed the transfer of 177 Venezuelan illegal aliens. The administration of President Donald Trump has placed a high priority on deporting people who have exhausted all legal appeals to stay in the U.S. Nearly 1.5 million had final removal orders as of Nov. 24, according to