India, March 21 -- United States and Venezuela got into a diplomatic spat between on Thursday over deportations as the US government denied Venezuela's claims of repatriation flights from Mexico, while the latter accused Washington of blocking them.

The war of words came as an aircraft carrying deported Venezuelans touched down in Venezuela after departing from Mexico, in what appeared to be part of US President Donald Trump's push to rapidly expel migrants, according to a Reuters report.

Earlier in the day, 311 Venezuelans who had been in the United States were flown from Mexico to Caracas. However, the US Department of State's Western Hemisphere office accused President Nicolas Maduro's government of lying about the flights.

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