Venezuelan authorities on Dec. 2 approved a migrant repatriation flight from the United States, resuming a practice that was paused after U.S. President Donald Trump said last week that the country’s airspace should be considered closed.
“The Aeronautic Authority of Venezuela has received a request from the government of the United States to restart migrant repatriation flights from that country to Venezuela,” the country’s transportation ministry said in a statement.
An Eastern Airlines flight flying from Phoenix was authorized to land at Maiquetia, near Caracas, the ministry added.
Previously, migrant flights conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had been conducted by the United States twice every week, bringing back Venezuelans who had either entered the U.S. illegally or received humanitarian parole or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that was later revoked….