First deportation flight of undocumented Venezuelans from US

Around 130 migrants was loaded onto a plane, chained hand and foot in Texas, for the first deportation flight of undocumented Venezuelans from the US. The charter followed the signing of an agreement between the two non-friendly governments.

Until the agreement this month between the White House and President Nicolas Maduro -- whose 2018 reelection Washington does not recognize -- Venezuelan migrants were deported on commercial flights, small numbers at a time mixed in with ordinary passengers. This was the first plane since the deal that was chartered for the sole purpose of returning a large group of migrants to Venezuela.