STORY: Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro welcomed on state TV seven migrant children returned home on Friday (July 18) aboard a U.S. deportation flight, reuniting with families after being held in American custody.

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and First Lady Cilia Flores received the children at Maiquetia airport near Caracas, where Cabello said the minors had been "rescued" from separation.

The children were part of a group of at least 251 deportees who arrived from Texas, while Cabello noted that 32 other Venezuelan migrant children remain in U.S. care without their families.

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1. VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO, WELCOMING THE RETURNED MIGRANT CHILDREN

2. MADURO SHOWING CHILD

3. MADURO POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH VENEZUELAN INTERIOR MINISTER, DIOSDADO CABELLO: VENEZUELAN FIRST LADY CILIA FLORES AND CHILD

4. CABELLO POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH CHILD AND CHILD'S FAMILY

5. MADURO, FLORES AND CABELLO TALKING AND CHILDREN PLAYING WITH THEIR FAMILIES

6. RETURNED CHILD

7. VARIOUS OF MADURO CARRYING CHILD

8. RETURNED CHILD BEING CARRIED

9. MADURO POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPH WITH RETURNED CHILD

10. MADURO SITTING WITH RETURNED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES