The aircraft later flew from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras, where Venezuelan authorities took custody of passengers to be returned to Caracas. Trump in January said he wanted to expand immigrant detention facilities at Guantanamo to hold as many as 30,000 ...

The United States has started sending more migrants deemed by officials to be “high threat” criminal aliens to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, just days after emptying out the base’s migrant facilities.

Trump still wants to use the base for detention, but a scaled-down version is the likeliest outcome, sources said.

The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.

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.

The Trump administration detained Yoiker Sequera at Guantanamo Bay for almost two weeks before he was deported to Venezuela. His mother reflects on finding out her son had been sent to the infamous prison and the effects it had on her.

Kevin Rodríguez, now back in Venezuela, said the uncertainty of not knowing how long he would be in the U.S. military facility was what worried him the most.

The Trump administration is moving to house 30,000 migrants at Guantánamo Bay — though the plan is seeing a few bumps in its road to implementation.

Venezuelans held in the detention center are describing the conditions in which they lived for weeks. Some revealed trying to kill themselves

What followed surprised Durán Arapé: he, along with more than 170 Venezuelan men, were flown to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba naval base for two weeks ... and help his family in Venezuela, and his son in Honduras. He was in detention for nearly 19 months ...

Mr. Hegseth served at the U.S. Navy base as a National Guard lieutenant. The base is now being used to hold some migrants who face deportation.