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On February 20, 2025, the Trump administration transferred 178 Venezuelan migrants who had been detained in Guantánamo Bay to Venezuela for repatriation. 177 of those migrants first flew to an airfield in Honduras, where they boarded a new aircraft headed to Venezuela. One of the migrants was brought back to the United States and is currently being detained in an ICE facility.[1] This transfer comes after Trump announced on January 29 that he would utilize a migrant operations center in Guantánamo Bay to detain up to 30,000 “high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.”[2] This controversial decision has been met with backlash and legal concerns.