Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Venezuela will face “severe sanctions and escalation” if she refuses to accept her citizens who were deported from the United States.
This strong warning comes as the Trump administration seeks to increase the deportations of Venezuelans who live illegally in the United States and need a temporary residence program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, which can pave the way to lose their legal status.
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Many of those who have a protected situation to the United States migrated amid the collapse of Venezuela’s economic collapse under the authoritarian rule of President Nicholas Maduro.
“Venezuela is obligated to accept its hostile citizens from the United States, as this is not a problem for discussion or negotiation.”
This threat came days after Richard Greenil, Special Envoy of President Donald Trump in charge of securing the release of six American citizens who were imprisoned in Venezuela, that the Maduro government agreed to accept return trips to the homeland.
Maduro agreed to accept his citizens after he initially rejected him.
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Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro (left) and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio (right). Rubio threatened new penalties for Venezuela if her citizens did not accept. (Getty Images / Fox News Digital)
In February, Trump ended a permit to export oil to allow Chevron to export oil from Venezuela to the United States to do so, Trump noted that the Maduro government had not received criteria for strengthening free and fair elections.
The Trump administration is fighting to deport the members of the Venezuelan gang to their country. During the weekend, 238 members of the Venezuelan gang were transferred to a very security prison in El Salvador despite the matter of the Federal judge to temporarily withholding the deportation.
During an interview with Radio Fox News, Rubio, President of El Salvadori, Nayeb, thanked the migrants.
“Venezuela should take them, but they refuse to take them. Thus, we are lucky because we have a friend like President Bokley who said, as part of my meeting with him, we will take them to get a small part of what costs you, comrades, shelter them in your prison system.”
Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro delivers a speech to Mirlmores Presidential Palace in Karacas on January 10, 2025. (Pedo Ranses Mattey/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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“I think it was very useful that El Salvador did to us and the President of the Undertgeer, and we are grateful to him. Frankly, I feel that we should continue to do so.”