Toddler Separated From Parents in Deportation Case Is Reunited With Mother in Venezuela

The DHS says the toddler’s father is a gang member ‘who oversees homicides, drug sales, kidnappings, extortion, sex trafficking, and operates a torture house.’

Maikelys Espinoza Bernal, a 2-year-old from Venezuela who was separated from her parents, is reunited with her mother, Yorely Escarleth Bernal Inciarte, and maternal grandmother Raida Inciarte at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 14, 2025. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS

A 2-year-old girl was reunited with her Venezuelan family on May 14 after her parents, whom the federal government accuses of being members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, were deported from the United States.

The toddler, Maikelys Espinoza Bernal, arrived in Venezuela on a repatriation flight alongside more than 220 U.S. deportees and was greeted by Venezuela’s first lady, Cilia Flores.