President Nicolás Maduro announced that the first of two flights carrying Venezuelans deported from the United States arrived on Monday at Simón Bolívar International Airport, which serves Caracas. On his weekly television program,

The flights, which left Fort Bliss in Texas, represent a significant victory for President Trump, who has vowed to carry out sweeping deportations.

The undocumented Venezuelans were on their way home, a foreign ministry statement said Monday, after President Nicolas Maduro agreed with a visiting Trump envoy to accept the return of the deported migrants and offered to provide the transport.