The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) announced on Wednesday (29) the creation of a working group (WG) with the United States Embassy in Brasilia to exchange information about the deported Brazilians and the operationalization of deportation flights . According to MRE, the measure aims to ensure “the security and decent and respectful treatment of passengers.”
The forecast is for immediate establishment of a direct line of communication between group members and allowing real -time follow -up of the next flights.
The proposal to create the WG had been discussed yesterday, at a meeting of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with ministers at the Planalto Palace, when the government announced that it will set up a humanitarian hosting post at Confins International Airport, Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region , in Minas Gerais, to receive Brazilians deported from the US. The site was chosen because it is the terminal where flights chartered by the US government are being destined over the last few years.
Government mobilization occurs days after a flight of deportation with 88 Brazilians have suffered a number of problems, with passengers handcuffed All the time, reports of aggression by US agents, deprivation of food and access to the bathroom, as well as technical problems that have impaired the operation of air conditioning and forced the aircraft to make unprecedented stops.
In one of these connections, in Manaus, on Friday (24), the Federal Police determined that the handcuffs be removed and the passengers were allocated on another plane of the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) to the capital of Minas Gerais, where arrived on Saturday (25). This was the first wave of Brazilians deported since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, who promised zero tolerance with illegal immigration in the country.
On Monday (27), the secretary of Brazilian communities abroad and consular and legal matters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Marcia Loureiro, met with the business officer From the United States Embassy in Brazil, Gabriel Escobar, to deal with the deportation of Brazilians. The call for Itamaraty Palace is a diplomatic gesture that expresses discontent from one country with another.
