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 and a Venezuelan state airline flew 177 Venezuelan migrants from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras and on to Venezuela on Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security said.

A plane carrying 177 Venezuelan migrants arrived in Venezuela on Thursday from Guantanamo as advocates file complaints over rights abuses in the camp.

ICE officials on Thursday said the 177 migrants are being returned to Venezuela, which is part of the administration's arrangements with the Colombian, Venezuelan and El Salvadoran governments to take in people deported by the U.

Officials in Washington and Caracas confirmed that a plane left the US base and deposited the 177 people in Honduras, where they were picked up by the Venezuelan government.

Kevin Rodríguez, now back in Venezuela, said the uncertainty of not knowing how long he would be in the U.S. military facility was what worried him the most.

These are the arrest records for some of the 178 Venezuelan migrants who were detained this month in Guantanamo Bay – the U.S. Navy base in Cuba notorious for imprisoning terrorism suspects in connection to the 9/11 attacks.