The base had been cleared of migrants since Thursday, after the government sent 177 to Venezuela and one back to the United States.

Flights that left from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Thursday transported nearly 200 illegal immigrants detained on the island back to Venezuela.

President Donald Trump promised loyalists that he’d send the world’s “worst criminal aliens” to Guantánamo Bay. But not all of them fit the label. One of the recent detainees was arrested for biking on the wrong side of the road.

The Trump administration said Thursday it had abruptly deported at least 177 Venezuelan immigrants who had been detained in a newly constructed prison camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Venezuelan immigrants are being flown on a daily basis from a Army post in El Paso, Texas, to Guantanamo as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

The U.S. government and a Venezuelan state airline flew 177 Venezuelan migrants from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras and on to Venezuela on Thursday (February 20), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security said.

The nearly 200 migrants detained at Guantanamo Bay have been cleared out of the military base, with all but one person flown back to Venezuela following successful negotiations with the

ICE officials on Thursday said the 177 migrants are being returned to Venezuela, which is part of the administration's arrangements with the Colombian, Venezuelan and El Salvadoran governments to take in people deported by the U.

Civil rights attorneys sued the Trump administration Saturday to prevent it from transferring 10 migrants detained in the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and filed statements from men held there who said they were mistreated there in conditions that of one of them called “a living hell.

President Donald Trump promised loyalists that he’d send the world’s “worst criminal aliens” to Guantánamo Bay. But not all of them fit the label. One of the recent detainees was arrested for biking on the wrong side of the road.

The lawsuit says there is no legitimate reason to send migrants to Guantánamo because the U.S. has ample detention facility.

U.S. immigration and military authorities say they are holding exclusively Venezuelan immigrants subject to final deportation orders at the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba