CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A 2-year-old girl separated from her parents by deportation arrived Wednesday in Venezuela where her mother was deported from the United States, a move that the South American country has repeatedly denounced as a kidnapping.

A two-year-old Venezuelan girl, whose parents were deported from the United States without her, was flown home on Wednesday to Caracas, earning President Donald Trump rare praise from Venezuela's government.

Venezuelan officials demanded Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal be returned after her mother was deported to Venezuela and her father, Maiker Espinoza-Escalona, was deported to an El Salvador