Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay, in a flurry of flights that forged an unprecedented pathway for U.S. deportations.

The U.S. government deported 177 Venezuelan migrants from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras, then to Venezuela. This action involved 126 individuals with alleged criminal affiliations. The deportations followed a lawsuit filed by the ACLU about denied legal access to migrants at Guantanamo Bay.

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department are racing to set up multiple tent facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house thousands of migrants, but the scattered efforts have prompted questions internally about who’s in charge and what will happen once people arrive on site.

Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem said "We've always had a presence of illegal immigrants" at Guantanamo Bay. Is that true?

The U.S. government deported 177 Venezuelan migrants from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras, where they are set to be returned to Venezuela. The move has sparked controversy, as many were taken to the naval base without legal representation.

"He was running from the very gang they are accusing him of being in," said the family of a man transferred to the federal detention at Guantanamo Bay.

On Thursday, a fourth federal judge blocked the executive order issued by the president on his first day in the Oval Office. "I worked in the army hospital on Ft. Lewis. A woman came in for belly pain,

The men had won a restraining order against the federal government but were put on a direct flight to Venezuela