Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes

npr ^ | June 30, 2026 | Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

[BenLurkin]

146 Venezuelan nationals who landed in Caracas after being deported from the U.S. on Wednesday.

Passengers on that plane, which included women and children, were being processed in a guarded hotel in La Guaira when powerful twin earthquakes struck, according to family members. The building they were in pancaked.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, gosh. It’s like Trump put a gun to their heads and pulled the trigger. [/s]

[Jonty30]

Life happens, sorry. Trump could not have predicted the earthquake.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Should we have waited until after the earthquake?

[butlerweave]

I suppose the democrat’s witch-doctors conjured up the earthquake to get Trump ,D’oh

[bray]

NPR’s take on the earthquake. If Trump bleeds it leads.

[ComputerGuy]

Welcome back!
Yeah, I know that’s cruel. And tasteless. And stuff.

[brookwood]

“The family of Mejía Meléndez had planned to celebrate with him once back home.”
What?? I thought the Venezuelans didn’t want to go home and we had to rip them way from their mothers and babies?

[ALASKA]

How horrible! Being deported when we knew good and well that an earthquake was about to strike Venezuela! USA bad!!!!!

[God luvs America]

had they never entered this country illegally this may have never happened- the part of the story i’m sure NPR has no interest in....

[Red Badger]

[Lurker]

Don’t care.

Can’t make me.

L

[Flaming Conservative]

Oh, pulleeze! Put a sock in it, NPR.

[spincaster]

Sometimes things happen, they just do.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Break the law and watch your life collapse like a stack of dominoes. Crime doesn't pay.

[Uncle Miltie]

You have a right to break the law if fault lines are unstable and building codes suck in your home country?

[dayglored]

NPR -could- point out that the reason the building pancaked was likely that it was built with the concrete-coated styrofoam walls that were in vogue in the socialist regime.

But they won’t say that. It’s Trump’s fault, not the socialists’.

[Freee-dame]

I am waiting for NPR to do a piece on why buildings are “pancaking” in Venezuela. From what I have read and seen, many appear to have no rebar in them at all.

[Brian Griffin]

Venezuela could have wined and dined them (and a few traitorous American Democrats) in the presidential palace.

[Delta 21]

npr needs defunded with prejudice.