A 2-year-old girl separated from her parents by deportation arrived on Wednesday in Venezuela , where her mother was deported from the United States a move that the South American country has repeatedly denounced as a kidnapping.

Maikelys Espinoza arrived at an airport outside the capital, Caracas, along with more than 220 deported migrants.

Footage aired by state television showed Venezuela's first lady Cilia Flores carrying Maikelys at the airport. Later, Flores was shown handing the girl over to her mother, who had been waiting for her arrival at the presidential palace along with President Nicols Maduro .

The U.S. government had claimed the family separation last month was justified because the girl's parents allegedly have ties to the Venezuelan-based Tren de Aragua gang, which President Trump designated a terrorist organization earlier this year.

The toddler's return has been "a battle every day and today we have a great victory," Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said at the airport Wednesday, Reuters reported .

The girl's mother was deported to Venezuela on April 25. Meanwhile, U.S. authorities sent her father to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March under Mr. Trump's invocation of an 18th-century wartime law to deport hundreds of immigrants.

For years, the government of Maduro had mostly refused the entry of immigrants deported from the U.S. But since Mr. Trump took office this year, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including some 180 who spent up to 16 days at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been deported to their home country.

Maduro on Wednesday thanked Mr. Trump for the return of the toddler, Agence France-Presse reported. Receiving the little girl at the presidential palace in Caracas, Maduro thanked Mr. Trump for a "profoundly humane act."

The Trump administration has said the Venezuelans sent to Guantanamo and El Salvador are members of the Tren de Aragua, but has offered little evidence to back up the allegation.

Maduro on Wednesday thanked Mr. Trump and his envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, for allowing Maikelys to reunite with her mother in a "profoundly humane" act. Grenell met with Maduro in Caracas shortly after Mr. Trump took office.

"There have been and will be differences, but it is possible, with God's blessing, to move forward and resolve many issues," Maduro said, alluding to the deep divisions between his and Mr. Trump's governments. "I hope and aspire that very soon we can also rescue Maikelys' father and the 253 Venezuelans who are in El Salvador."

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周三，一名两岁女孩因被驱逐出境而与父母分离，抵达委内瑞拉，其母亲此前从美国被驱逐出境，而这一举动被南美国家一再谴责为绑架行为。

马基莱斯·埃斯皮诺萨（Maikelys Espinoza）与超过220名被驱逐的移民一同抵达首都加拉加斯（Caracas）外的机场。

国家电视台播出的录像显示，委内瑞拉第一夫人西莉亚·弗洛雷斯在机场抱着迈克尔。后来，弗洛雷斯被拍到将这个女孩交给了她的母亲，这位母亲与尼古拉斯·马杜罗总统一起在总统府等待她的到来。

美国政府上个月称，该家庭分离是合理的，因为这名女孩的父母被指控与委内瑞拉Tren de Aragua帮派有联系，特朗普总统今年早些时候将该帮派指定为恐怖组织。

据路透社报道，委内瑞拉内政部长迪奥斯达多·卡韦略（Diosdado Cabello）在周三的机场表示，这名幼儿的回归“每天都像是一场战斗，而今天我们取得了巨大的胜利。”

4月25日，这名女孩的母亲被驱逐到委内瑞拉。与此同时，在美国特朗普总统援引18世纪战时法律驱逐数百名移民的情况下，美国当局于3月将她父亲送往萨尔瓦多的最高安全监狱。

多年来，马杜罗政府大多拒绝接收被美国驱逐的移民。但自特朗普今年上任以来，包括在古巴关塔那摩湾美国海军基地滞留多达16天的约180名委内瑞拉移民在内的数百名委内瑞拉移民已被驱逐回其祖国。

据法新社报道，马杜罗在周三感谢特朗普先生送回了这名幼儿。马杜罗在加拉加斯总统府接待了这名小女孩，并感谢特朗普先生“做出如此人性化的举动。”

特朗普政府曾表示，被送往关塔那摩和萨尔瓦多的委内瑞拉人是阿格拉乌铁路的成员，但并没有提供太多证据来支持这一指控。

马杜罗（Maduro）在周三对特朗普先生及其特使理查德·格伦内尔（Richard Grenell）表示感谢，感谢他们让马伊克利斯（Maikelys）得以与母亲团聚，这是一种“极其人性化的”行为。特朗普先生上任后不久，格伦内尔就在加拉加斯与马杜罗会面。

马杜罗表示，尽管存在分歧，但上帝的保佑下，我们仍有可能向前迈进并解决许多问题，这暗示了他和特朗普政府之间存在深刻的分歧。\"我希望并期待很快我们也能解救Maikelys的父亲以及在萨尔瓦多的253名委内瑞拉人。\"

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