The Minister for Transportation, Ramón Velásquez Araguayán, received almost 200 new migrants repatriated from the United States, as a consequence of the policy of xenophobia and criminalization of the Government of Donald Trump. A new aircraft with Venezuelan migrants rescued from the U.S. was received this Thursday afternoon at the International Airport of Maiquetía Simón Bolívar.
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00:00And now we go now live to Venezuela as another flight carrying the Venezuelans
00:12migrants arrive in the country through the government's plans back to the homeland
00:19who is landing at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maquetilla in the state of La Guaira
00:26as you can see. We are now witnessing the arrival of the seventh flight and the fifth
00:34phase since the announcement earlier this year of the government's commitment to the safe return
00:42of Venezuelan second nationals in the massive deportation campaign being carried out by the
00:47U.S. administration of Donald Trump. As we remember the flights that have
00:57early arrived from the United States hasn't arrived directly in the Bolivar Republic of
01:04Venezuela. They arrived in El Salvador illegally, not in the nationals, Venezuelan nationals
01:13in El Salvador. In this way earlier this week President Nicolás Maduro highlighted the
01:20government of Venezuela has increased its efforts to ensure that this return to the
01:25Venezuelan migrants who are victims of Trump administration immigration policies,
01:30specifically who are illegally sent to El Salvador. As we said the government of Venezuela
01:36are doing their best to return the Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in El Salvador illegally
01:44deported from the United States. This process is part of the plan back to the homeland a
01:50humanitarian effort to the government of Venezuela to repatriate Venezuelans who after the migrating
01:56in search of a better future in the U.S. were deported and face inhuman conditions. Let us
02:03recall that the plan back to the homeland was established by President Nicolás Maduro in 2018
02:11as a humanitarian initiative to facilitate the return of Venezuelan migrants who had left the
02:17country deceived by the American dream promising them a better life and funding the opposite.
02:27Through this plan the government has managed to repatriate more than 914,000 Venezuelans since
02:36its activation in 2018. There have been back to the homeland plans that flights arrived in
02:44Venezuela since 2018 from Peru, Colombia, the United States and other countries around the world.
02:55This earlier today at 11 a.m. local time Venezuelan local time a flight arrived from
03:07from Mexico to Venezuela carrying around
03:13around 313 people among them 151 children, 102 women and 60 men. There was the Minister of
03:28Interior Relations, Justice and Peace who emphasized that the different security and
03:35child protections agencies as well as medical agencies were present at the airport and is the
03:42same in this case the agencies of health protection and medical agencies are present to
03:50check the people who is arriving in this flight. This flight is as we have mentioned is a part of
03:58the government's commitment to the safe return to the congressionals in the massive the protection
04:04campaign that is being carried out by the U.S. administration of Donald Trump.
04:12And something that the Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace of Venezuela said when this
04:21flight the first flight of today arrived in the airport was that 100 1,610 Venezuelans
04:32have already returned to the country under the return to the back to the homeland plan.
04:42As you can see there is landing the plane the airplane. Let's remember something important
04:56and it's important to bring to the table that is the Venezuelans. The Venezuelans that are in
05:03El Salvador illegally kidnapped in confinement camps are the Venezuelan who are has no criminal
05:11charges are the normal people who went to the United States or another country around the world
05:20to look for a better life conditions and they were illegally trapped and illegally returned
05:28and illegally kidnapped in El Salvador like they were criminals when they are not.
05:43The flights operated by the state-owned airline Conviasa which has become the flagship of the
05:49back to the homeland plan are free of charge and seeks to offer an alternative for those migrants
05:58who wish to return. And now let's listen to the statements.
06:06Where a flight landed from the states and from there there are 198 people coming from
06:15repatriated. Twelve are women and the rest are men. According to the evaluation
06:25that has been made by the Venezuelan authorities according to police records and criminal records
06:33there's not a single one that has criminal records or any international warrant.
06:39From this group of repatriated that are arriving there are people that have
06:43some police records. The ones that arrive here will as has been indicated in all occasions
06:50will be examined thoroughly for our authorities and those that have a debt with justice well
06:57without a doubt will go to another section which will be the follow-up of that debt
07:05that they have with justice. However we must clarify according to the analysis and the study
07:13because before boarding all these repatriated there were people that were that check one by one
07:22with their fingerprints to verify first that they are Venezuelan citizens and not
07:28another one according to what is established on that list of repatriated that we are about to
07:33receive none belong to the infamous train at Agua. Today more than ever we are committed
07:41with the return of Venezuelans to our country and here there is a number of institutions
07:51that answer to one guideline to welcome our nationals to give them a humane treatment
08:01to give them a treatment as citizens of this great homeland that allows them once they arrive
08:07here to their territory to be able to reincorporate themselves in the daily life of
08:12society in the country in public activities and private activities of each one of them.
08:18That's the reason why well we are about to welcome the flight there's a whole operation installed
08:26first will be the revision that migration does customs then there's a whole protocol where
08:34health check check-ups are done the registries where people are evaluated even the location
08:42of the home where they are going to live because there's a system that guarantees to all
08:47repatriated arriving that do not have any kind of debt with justice to return immediately to their
08:55homes accompanied with all the institutions that do daily life in our republic talking about the
09:04agencies human rights agencies everything that is associated with the great missions
09:09and allows us in this manner so that our repatriated have that helping hand so that
09:15they feel that they arrive to their homeland and that here our president Nicolas Maduro
09:20welcome to them invites them to be part of the productive process and that the dream for which
09:27they were taken to the countries that they built it here in their homeland therefore starting from
09:33now we are going to prepare and deploy to receive these 198 Venezuelans so that immediately they
09:42feel that they are being hosted by the authorities have a good afternoon
09:51and as we were saying there are people arriving in the Maiketia airport in the state
10:03which are training Venezuelan nationals that could return safe and sound to the country to
10:10the back to the homeland plan plan that the Venezuelan government implemented since 2018
10:18and has been a repatriate in Venezuelans safely to the country
10:26as we see we are witnessing the arrival of the seventh flight since the announcements earlier
10:32this year as the government's he's committed to return the connationals in the massive
10:39deportation campaigns being created by the U.S. administration of Donald Trump who is a little
10:45leader kidnapping Venezuelans in concentration camps in El Salvador together with the agreement
10:55and with the joining of the Salvadorian president Nayib Bukele earlier this week the president
11:05of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro highlighted the government of Venezuela has increased efforts
11:11to ensure the return of Venezuelan migrants who are victims of these Trump administration
11:16immigration policies or do those who are illegally sent to El Salvador these plans
11:24now primarily is to prevent that Venezuelan migrants in the United States go to El Salvador
11:32to be illegally kidnapped by the order of the Trump administration people who has no criminal
11:40charges people who are not part of the extended train that well people who are just civilians
11:46who went to the United States to found the American dream to have a real life conditions
11:54and were illegally kidnapped were illegally sent to El Salvador and are being treated like
12:03there were criminals within human conditions are being humiliated and there are allegations of
12:11tortures and they're concentrated in camps like the there were nazis this process as we are saying
12:19back to the homeland plan is part of the humanitarian efforts of the government of
12:25Venezuela to repatriate Venezuelans after the migrating in search for real life in the U.S.
12:31were deporting and facing human conditions in El Salvador the flight operated by the state-owned
12:40earlier has become the flagship of the back to the homeland plan are freed of charge and seeks
12:49to offer an alternative for those migrants who wish to return to Venezuela and the wish are
12:55coming true thanks to the back to the homeland plan and are avoiding to be illegally deported
13:01to El Salvador and being treated like they were criminals when they are not
13:07and the plan of the back to the homeland is returned to them is returning them to Venezuela
13:16providing them the physical the psychological support of social and economic assistance
13:23for the reintegration into society as we can see in a few moments the Venezuelans will be
13:36see we will see the Venezuelans who has arrived
13:40to the country from the United States in the combiasa airplane
14:07it's important to mention that 198 Venezuelan migrants are arriving are landing here in the
14:18market the airport in the state of la huayra the rescue from the United States from the
14:27Trump's administration thanks to the back to the homeland plan of the Venezuelan government
14:34we are just waiting for the children of the plane and they can be together with their families
14:44save and with the support of the government who has made this real at some point we see
14:54someone's going upstairs and a few moments they will open the door and Venezuelans who are
15:01of the plane will be honored will be together with their families who will be together and
15:10thankful with the Venezuelan government that are returning as civilians as proud civilians
15:18as people who has done nothing and people who have been receiving bad treatment from
15:26the government of the United States we can wait a few minutes to see the 198 migrants who just
15:36arrived in the Venezuelan international airport of my catia in the state of la huayra
15:45this is a seventh flight one arrived first this morning at 11 a.m local time
15:53at the same airport and this is the second who is expecting who was expected for the day
16:08let's remember that the first flight that was occurring in the perpetrator migrants and arrive
16:16and arrive at the international airport of my idea
16:20with the back to the homeland planned arrive from mexico and receive but the Venezuelan
16:27minister of interior relations justice and pieces of cabello and he welcomed 313 people among them
16:35151 children 102 women and 60 men it is important to emphasize that the minister of interior
16:46cabello emphasized that the different that different security and child protection agencies
16:52as well as medical agencies were present at the airport as the flight is part of the government
16:59is a commitment to the safe return to the international in the message reportation
17:04this campaign is being carried out by the u.s administration of donald trump
17:08it's important to note that in this case also will be present the prediction agencies
17:15child protection agency medical agencies that also will and security
17:20also will be there therefore a safety of the repatriated people
17:32we'll give you more information about the airplanes that are landing in the airport
17:39in the state of la guaira with the repatriated national that 198 migrants that arrive to
17:48venezuela from the back to the homeland plan of the government more information coming up
17:56in our news brief from the south