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naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The United States recently sent a group of migrants to the base. Now they've been sent away on the way to their eventual destination, their home country of Venezuela.
And we've learned some information about them along the way. So let's go to NPR immigration correspondent Sergio Martinez Beltran. Sergio, good morning.
Good morning, Steve. What do you know about this flight? Well, the Trump administration announced yesterday that 177 Venezuelans who had been in Guantanamo Bay for a couple of weeks were removed to Honduras. That's all but one of the migrants who'd been detained there. Honduras was sort of a layover for them.
The Venezuelan government met them later and flew them back home, and the migrants landed in Venezuela last night around 10 p.m. local time.
Okay, so United States, Guantanamo, Honduras, Venezuela, zigzagging around the Caribbean and surrounding areas. So I want to figure out what we've learned here.
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