The assertion by Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, could herald a shift in the relationship between the United States and Venezuela’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro.

Deportation flights to Venezuela are expected to restart as early as next week, a senior ICE official told The Post. The Trump administration is “reasonably confident” the flights will commence “early next week,

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio formally seized a plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government on behalf of the United States on Thursday.

Venezuela has accused the US of "brazen theft" after seizing one of its government aircraft in the Dominican Republic. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the seizure of the plane on Thursday - the second Venezuelan plane the US has confiscated in the Caribbean country in less than a year.

This is the second plane that the US has seized belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government.