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"The United States is announcing today that it will resume direct repatriations of Venezuelan nationals who cross our border unlawfully and do not establish a legal basis to remain," the Department of Homeland Security said in a press release.

"As a result of the October announcement of repatriation flights to Venezuela, there has been a decline in Venezuelans crossing the Southern Border," Hochul said.

The Biden administration flew more than 100 Venezuelans back to their authoritarian socialist homeland on Wednesday as deportation flights to the troubled nation resumed for the first time in years.

Migrants are flocking to Tapachula in the Mexican state of Chiapas from Central America, Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela on their way to the US, a local businessman in the coffee trade told The Post.

Guyana’s president Irfaan Ali told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his country is taking every necessary step to protect itself from Venezuela.

“The truth is, I don’t know where we’ll go," said Bianca Guzman, a single mom of four from Venezuela, to The Post on Monday outside the Row Hotel-turned-migrant-shelter in Midtown Manhattan, where she and her kids are staying.

The U.S. freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the extradition of a fugitive defense contractor known as “Fat Leonard.”

Some of the Americans who were freed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in a U.S. prisoner swap have landed at a U.S. military base in San Antonio, Texas, a Reuters witness said.

A Post reporter watched Thursday morning as Alexander Mendez, 23, of Venezuela and 30 others -- including women and children -- crossed the Rio Gerande Thursday morning.

"We need to get to America fast," said Fernando Valencia, a 36-year-old truck driver from Venezuela. "With the new laws in Texas, we have a better chance of getting into America now than if we wait."

Alex Saab had allegedly been a top financial intermediary between Venezuela and Iran.

Maria Manaura, 32 – originally from Venezuela, who now lives in the Row NYC hotel in Times Square – was nabbed Tuesday evening for allegedly snatching a 25-year–old woman’s phone on board a packed southbound No. 6 train at the 42nd Street...

The crew — and others like it — include people from several nations, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras and Mexico, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters.

Flights from the US to Venezuela stopped late last month, US officials said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“This case ... has gotten a lot of media attention,” defense attorney Adrienne Doreen Edward said of the Feb. 8 shooting allegedly committed by 15-year-old Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa of Venezuela.

"This is not stable, in terms of many people’s eyes, domestically and internationally, seizing assets happens in Venezuela, it doesn’t happen in New York. So this is a little scary."

Bonaci was first placed on administrative leave in August and went back to Venezuela, but he was then allowed to take part in the Arizona Fall League, per the Globe.

Diego Ibarra, the brother of the man charged for the brutal killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, has ties to the dangerous Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, according to new court documents.

An illegal immigrant from Venezuela has been charged with manslaughter for a wrong-way accident in Missouri that killed a 12-year-old boy.

Carlos Mendoza has been in professional baseball since 1997 when he signed with the San Francisco Giants out of Venezuela.