Freed migrants reunite with families

LOBATERA, Venezuela -- Some of the migrants freed last week in a prisoner swap between the U.S. and Venezuelan governments reunited Wednesday with loved ones. Officials have claimed they were physically and psychologically tortured during their detention in El Salvador.

Carlos Uzcátegui tightly hugged his sobbing wife and stepdaughter on Wednesday as the morning fog in western Venezuela lifted. The family's first embrace in more than a year finally convinced him that his nightmare inside a prison in El Salvador was over.

Uzcátegui was among the migrants who were freed after four months in prison in El Salvador, where the U.S. government transferred them -- accusing them of being members of a foreign gang in the U.S. illegally -- in one of its boldest moves to crack down on immigration.