Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appeared triumphant on Friday, celebrating the return to Venezuela of migrants held in El Salvador after being deported from the U.S., after Venezuela released 10 jailed Americans on Friday in exchange.

An investment advisor who lives in a Coconut Grove luxury high-rise condo was arrested Thursday on charges of operating a Ponzi scheme and swindling tens of millions of dollars from Venezuelan investors and two Catholic dioceses in the South American country, according to a federal indictment.

Hundreds of Venezuelans swept up in President Donald Trump's immigration dragnet have reached home after their release from a maximum security

Other Venezuelans, Vegas knows, aren’t quite so fortunate. There’s a weight with that. “I feel their pain, for the reason that our country is in a horrible spot politically,” Vegas said.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday seemed poised to block the administration of President Donald Trump from stripping nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants of protections against deportation, with one judge singling out "arguably racist" comments by the Republican president and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s move to strip the protected status of some 350,000 Venezuelans living the US could be sidetracked by comments she made about them, as a panel of Ninth Circuit judges focused on the question of unconstitutional animus during oral arguments Wednesday.

The Department of Homeland Security is appealing a court ruling over the removal of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans. Meanwhile, a judge is deciding if Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be released while awaiting trial in Tennessee.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. zeroed in on several comments by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, including that "Venezuela purposely emptied out their prisons,