An agreement with the government of Nicolás Maduro will allow the deportation of hundreds of thousands back to the authoritarian socialist regime many have fled.

Richard Grenell, the envoy for special missions, said he was flying home with the detainees after he met with President Nicolás Maduro.

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met Friday with a Trump administration official.