2-year-old girl reunites with her mother in Venezuela after US deportation
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arrived at an airport outside the capital, Caracas, along with more than 220 deported migrants. Footage aired by state television showed Venezuela's first lady Cilia Flores carrying Maikelys at the airport. Later, Flores was shown handing the girl over to her mother, who had been waiting for her arrival at the presidential palace along with President Nicolas Maduro.
"Here is everyone's beloved little girl. She is the daughter and granddaughter of all of us," Maduro said.
The US government had claimed the family separation last month was justified because the girl's parents allegedly have ties to the Venezuelan-based Tren de Aragua gang, which US President Donald Trump designated a terrorist organization earlier this year.
The girl's mother was deported to Venezuela on April 25. Meanwhile, US authorities sent her father to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March under Trump's invocation of an 18th-century wartime law to deport hundreds of immigrants.
For years, the government of Maduro had mostly refused the entry of immigrants deported from the US But since Trump took office this year, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including some 180 who spent up to 16 days at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been deported to their home country.
The Trump administration has said the Venezuelans sent to Guantanamo and El Salvador are members of the Tren de Aragua, but has offered little evidence to back up the allegation.
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Maduro on Wednesday thanked Trump and his envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, for allowing Maikelys to reunite with her mother in a "profoundly humane" act. Grenell met with Maduro in Caracas shortly after Trump took office.
"There have been and will be differences, but it is possible, with God's blessing, to move forward and resolve many issues," Maduro said, alluding to the deep divisions between his and Trump's governments. "I hope and aspire that very soon we can also rescue Maikelys' father and the 253 Venezuelans who are in El Salvador."
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