Pausing flights to Venezuela, Trump admin is dropping deportees off in Mexico
Amid the escalating tensions between the United States and Venezuela that resulted in the capture of strongman Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has been sending Venezuelan immigrants to Mexico since at least December.
The Miami Herald has spoken with Venezuelans immigrants — including a single mother with two young children and a man who had fled government authorities in Venezuela and then a guerilla group in Colombia — and their families. They say they were held in detention centers in Texas before being handed over to Mexican authorities. The Mexican government later sent them by bus to the southern city of Villahermosa, where violence and organized crime has exploded in recent years, as well as the municipality of Palenque, in the state of Chiapas near the border with Guatemala.
“Once I entered immigration detention, I lost everything,” said Omar Vergara Flores, a 36-year-old man who had just purchased a home in Austin with his wife and was planning to acquire a construction franchise.
A shelter administrator in Villahermosa, the capital city of Tabasco, told the Herald his center has received several Venezuelan men, women, and children deported from the U.S. since Caracas announced on Dec. 12 that the United States had unilaterally suspended deportation flights to Venezuela.
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Vergara Flores was among those dropped off in the middle of the night in Villahermosa. He has a bachelor’s degree in architecture and another degree in informatics. He was building a stable life with his wife and had even purchased a home after entering the U.S. in 2022 through the Mexican border.
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