Caracas, Venezuela - Venezuela condemned the kidnapping after a 2-year-old girl arrived in Caracas on Wednesday and was deported from her mother after she was deported.

Maikelys Espinoza and more than 220 deported immigrants arrived at airports outside the capital Caracas. Video broadcast on state television shows that Venezuela's first lady Cilia Flores took Maikelys to the airport. Later, Flores was handed over to her mother, who had been waiting for her and President Nicolás Maduro to arrive at the Presidential Palace.

"This is the little girl everyone loves. She is the daughter and granddaughter of all of us," Maduro said.

The U.S. government claims that the family separation last month makes sense because the girl's parents allegedly have links to the Tren de Alagua gang in Venezuela, which U.S. President Donald Trump designated as a terrorist group earlier this year.

The girl's mother was deported to Venezuela on April 25. Meanwhile, according to 18th-century wartime laws, U.S. authorities sent her father to the highest security prison in El Salvador in March to expel hundreds of immigrants.

For years, the Maduro administration has largely refused entry of immigrants who were deported from the United States, but since Trump took office this year, hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants, including about 180 days of immigrants at a naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been deported.

The Trump administration said the Venezuelans sent to Guantanamo and El Salvador were members of Tren de Aragua, but provided little evidence to support the allegation.

Maduro thanked Trump and his envoy for their special mission, Richard Grenell, on Wednesday, for allowing Maikelys to reunite with his mother in a "deeply humanized" behavior. Shortly after Trump took office, Grinnell met with Maduro in Caracas.

Maduro hints at a deep division between him and the Trump administration. "I hope and long for a moment we can also rescue Maikelys' father and 253 Venezuelans in El Salvador."