Venezuela on Thursday flew home hundreds of citizens from Mexico, most of them US-bound migrants whose journey came to a premature end.

The war of words came as an aircraft carrying deported Venezuelans touched down in Venezuela after departing from Mexico.

Nearly a week after the Trump administration flew more than 200 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, the mass deportation is continuing to draw intense scrutiny, with a federal judge admonishing Administration officials for "evading its obligations,