Venezuela on Friday released 10 jailed U.S. citizens and permanent residents in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown,

The Trump administration's negotiations with Nicolas Maduro's regime should not distract from the hundreds of political prisoners held in Venezuela.

Venezuela on Friday received seven children who had been left behind in the United States after their parents were deported by the Donald Trump administration.

The group has been linked to human trafficking networks that move migrants north through Central America and Mexico, with stops in border cities like Tapachula and Tijuana — and eventual arrivals in U.

The U.S. has long targeted the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, but the Trump administration has stepped up those efforts.