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Families search for loved ones after hundreds taken on U.S. immigration flights disappear from online locator

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Summary
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63% Informative

More than 200 Venezuelan immigrants flown to El Salvador after being accused of belonging to Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.

Families scramble to find their loved ones after hundreds of immigrants vanished from ICE 's online locator.

Nearly 8 million Venezuelans have left their homeland since 2013 , when its oil-dependent economy collapsed.

The Venezuelan government has blasted the transfers, calling them “kidnappings” and urging people to protest Tuesday in the capital, Caracas , to demand that detainees in El Salvador be sent to their homeland.

Sánchez said she and her husband left Venezuela in 2023 with barely $200 and spent the next three months sleeping in plazas.

VR Score

70

Informative language

71

Neutral language

41

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

53

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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no external sources

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