US President Donald Trump over the weekend invoked rare wartime legislation to fly more than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador, which has offered to imprison migrants and even US citizens at a discount.
“Unless the Maduro regime accepts a consistent flow of deportation flights, without further excuses or delays, the US will impose new, severe and escalating sanctions,“ Rubio wrote.
The Venezuelan leader met Trump's envoy Richard Grenell shortly after the Republican returned to the White House, promising to accept deported migrants in a move seen as a shift towards pragmatic engagement with Washington.
The deportations to El Salvador took place even though a US federal judge granted a temporary suspension of the expulsion order.
Trump called for the judge to be impeached, leading to a rare rebuke of the president by Chief Justice John Roberts.
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