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Venezuela will continue accepting deportation flights from the U.S. at the request of President Donald Trump‘s administration, the country announced Tuesday.

Trump threatened to declare the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela to be “closed in its entirety,” causing Venezuela to cancel the twice-weekly flights of migrants from the U.S. on Saturday. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Tuesday that, at the request of the Trump administration, those flights have now resumed.

Immigrants arrive regularly at the airport outside the capital of Caracas on flights operated by a U.S. government contractor or Venezuela’s state-owned airline. More than 13,000 immigrants have returned so far this year on the chartered flights, the latest

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