Venezuela will be confronted with “serious and escalating sanctions” if it refuses to accept his citizens who have been deported from the United States, said State Secretary Marco Rubio on Tuesday.
The heavy warning comes when the Trump administration Try to increase deportations of Venezuelans who live in the US illegally and need a temporary residence program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, who can pave the way for them to lose their legal status.
The video shows presumably members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13. (@Naybubukele in x)
Many of those with protected status migrated to the US in the midst of the economic collapse of Venezuela under the authoritarian rule of President Nicolas Maduro.
“Venezuela is obliged to accept his repatriated citizens of the US. This is not a question of debate or negotiation,” wrote Rubio on X. “Neither the only reward deserves. Unless the Maduro regime accepts a consistent stream of deportation air, without further apologies or delays.”
The threat came days after Richard Grenell, the special envoy of President Donald Trump, charged with securing the release of six American citizens who were trapped in Venezuela, said that Maduro’s government had agreed to accept repatriation flights.
Maduro agreed to accept his citizens after he initially refused here.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (left) and State Secretary Marco Rubio (right). Rubio endangered new sanctions against Venezuela if it does not accept its citizens. (Getty Images / Fox News Digital)
In February, Trump ended a permit to export oil to enable Chevron to export oil from Venezuela to the US, Trump noted that the Maduro government had not met benchmarks to promote free and honest elections.
The Trump Government is fighting to deport Venezolaan gangs Back to their country. At the weekend, 238 Venezuelan gang members were flown to a high -protected prison in El Salvador, despite the fact that the command of a federal court temporarily blocked the deportations.
During an interview on Fox News Radio, Rubio thanked the El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for accepting the migrants.
“Venezuela should take them, but they refuse to take them. And so we are lucky to have a friend Bukele who, as part of my meeting with him, said we will take them for a fraction of what it costs them to accommodate them in your own prison system,” he said.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, will give a speech for Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas on 10 January 2025. (Pedro Rances Mattey/Anadolu via Getty images)
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“I think it was very useful El Salvador Did for us and President Bukele, and we are grateful to him for that. And to be honest, I feel that we should keep doing it, “he added.
