More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the United States hours before a series of earthquakes in Venezuela are reported missing, according to survivors and reporting based on deportation-flight monitoring. Survivors say a group of people—reportedly held in a hotel in Caracas after arriving on a deportation flight—was in place when the earthquakes struck, leading to confusion as rescue teams searched for survivors and victims trapped in rubble.
Multiple outlets report that a deportation flight from Miami arrived in Caracas hours before the earthquakes on Wednesday. PBS NewsHour, citing ICE Flight Monitor, says the flight carried 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children. Other coverage focuses on the claim that more than 100 of those deported were unaccounted for after the earthquakes, with survivors describing an immediate scramble to find people and account for casualties. The accounts do not provide a confirmed total death toll or the exact number missing beyond “more than 100,” and they attribute the hotel and missing-person claims to survivors rather than to authorities in the excerpts provided.
