Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met Friday with a Trump administration official tasked with urging the authoritarian leader to take back deported migrants who have committed crimes in the United States.

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela are heading home to the US, President Donald Trump announced Friday, after his envoy met with the country’s President Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela has released six American male detainees after President Nicolás Maduro met Richard Grenell, the Trump administration's special envoy. President Trump and Grenell announced the release on social media on Friday evening. Grenell posted photos of the detainees on a plane and arriving on U.S. soil.