The Biden administration is restarting direct deportations to Venezuela in an attempt to reduce unlawful crossings along the southern border by Venezuelan migrants, who have journeyed to the U.S. in record numbers in recent weeks, federal officials announced Thursday. For years, the U.S. did not carry out regular deportations to Venezuela due to its strained diplomatic relationship with that country’s socialist government, which faces U.S. sanctions due to its human rights abuses and repressive policies. But officials now plan to resume direct deportations there to send back Venezuelans who enter the U.S. unlawfully and lack a legal basis to remain in the country. CBS News first reported the announcement earlier Thursday. By Camilo Montoya-Galvez. Full Text-> CBCNews

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that it’s “not rational” to deport to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua migrants who have come from those countries, and he added that he is working with “Mexico and other countries” to “stop the flow” of migrants from those nations. The president told reporters at the White House that the situation on the southern US border is “totally different” from what it was during the administration of his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, since “there are fewer and fewer immigrants coming from Central America than from Mexico. Full Text -> LaPrensaLatina

Traducción de cortesía -> El presidente Joe Biden dijo el martes que “no es racional” deportar a Venezuela, Cuba y Nicaragua a los migrantes que han venido de esos países, y agregó que está trabajando con “México y otros países” para “frenar el flujo” de migrantes de esas naciones. El presidente dijo a los periodistas en la Casa Blanca que la situación en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos es “totalmente diferente” a la que había durante la administración de su antecesor republicano, Donald Trump, ya que “cada vez hay menos inmigrantes provenientes de Centroamérica que de México.

President Joe Biden’s administration has been deporting Venezuelans by way of a third country despite condemning former President Donald Trump for doing the same.In the midst of the tight 2020 presidential race, Biden blasted Trump for using what Biden said were “stealth deportations” through third countries to send Venezuelans “back to the oppressive Maduro regime.” By Damià Bonmatí and Belisa Morillo. Full Text -> NBCNews

Traducción de cortesía -> La administración del presidente Joe Biden ha estado deportando venezolanos a través de un tercer país a pesar de haber condenado al expresidente Donald Trump por hacer lo mismo. países para enviar a los venezolanos “de vuelta al régimen opresivo de Maduro”. To translate into Spanish -> Google Translación

“Chilean courts have shown that many Venezuelans who fled a devastating crisis at home were deported without due process, violating basic international law standards,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “It’s inconsistent for the Chilean government to strongly condemn the abuses in Venezuela while ignoring Venezuelans’ rights in the rush to deport them to a country where their lives may be at risk.” Full Text -> HumanRightWatch

THE Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuelan authorities deported 124 Venezuelans to their country on Sunday. Vice Admiral Euclides Brito, commander of the 61 Integral Defence Zone in Delta Amacuro, Venezuela (Zodi), announced this on Monday through a Venezuelan radio station. By Grevic Akvarado. Full Text -> NewsDay

The United Nations (UN) Tuesday voiced their concern about Sunday’s deportation of 56 Venezuelan migrants from Chile despite legal actions taken against such a measure. We express concern about a new process of expulsion of Venezuelan foreigners, which occurred on June 6,” said a statement released on Tuesday by the Office for South America of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). UNHCR, UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Full Text ->MercoPress

The prelates recall that since February they have witnessed “with great regret, situations of detention and deportation suffered by migrants, mainly of Venezuelan nationality”. With special apprehension, they have also heard the Government’s announcement that 15 deportation flights will be carried out during 2021, the first of which was carried out on April 25 in the city of Iquique. “Unfortunately, this operation was repeated this Friday and Saturday, setting the deportation for Sunday, June 6, transferring the detainees from Santiago and other places to Iquique, to be finally taken to Venezuela”. Full Text -> Agenzia Fides

An IT company boss who was refused asylum after fleeing alleged persecution in Venezuela has successfully challenged the decision not to permit him to appeal the refusal to the Upper Tribunal. Full Text -> Scottish Legal News

The image of 87 migrants, the majority Venezuelans, boarding a Chilean military plane to be returned to the country two weeks ago consolidated a shift in the immigration policy of the Sebastián Piñera government, which generates a hostile climate towards the undocumented.

With the clock winding down on his term, U.S. President Donald Trump shielded tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants from deportation Tuesday night, rewarding Venezuelan exiles who have been among his most loyal supporters and who fear losing the same privileged access to the White House during the Biden administration.  Trump signed an executive order deferring for 18 months the removal of more than 145,000 Venezuelans who were at risk of being sent back to their crisis-wracked homeland. He cited the “deteriorative condition” within Venezuela that constitutes a national security threat as the basis for his decision. Full Text -> France24