Peru deports first large group of Venezuelan migrants

Peruvian immigration police escort Venezuelan migrants as they board a bus prior to their deportation, after being accused of concealing that they had criminal records, according to Peru's Interior Ministry in Lima, Peru on April 29, 2019. REUTERS

LIMA – Peru deported more than 40 Venezuelan migrants for concealing they had criminal records or for residing illegally in the country, the interior minister said on Monday, in the first large expulsion since hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans fled to Peru to escape their country’s economic crisis.

The migrants were detained in different districts of the capital, Lima, in a police operation early on Monday, and were put on a military plane headed to Venezuela hours later. (Reuters)

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