On board the aircraft arrived 88 Brazilians. Brazil’s Human Rights Minister Macaé Evarist
Brazil will ask for explanations to Donald Trump’s government for the “denigrating treatment” to 88 Brazilian illegal migrants deported from the United States who were handcuffed during the trip, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry reported.
This is the first voltage episode between the governments of the new US president Trump and the Brazilian left -wing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Brazil will present a “request for explanations to the US government on the denigrating treatment dispensed to passengers on the flight” from the United States that landed on Friday night January 24 in Manaos, capital of the state of Amazonas (north), said the Foreign Ministry In your X account.
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“Tooked feet and hand”
On board the aircraft, 88 Brazilians arrived, the Brazilian government confirmed on Saturday in an official note.
“On the plane they did not give us water, we were moored hands and foot, nor let us go to the bathroom,” he told the AFP Edgar Da Silva Moura, a 31 -year -old computer technician who arrived deported on the flight after seven months arrested in the United States.
“It was too hot, some people passed out,” he added.
Luis Antonio Rodrigues Santos, an autonomous 21 -year -old worker, reported the “nightmare” of people with “respiratory problems” who spent “four hours without air conditioning” due to technical problems, which also affected “a turbine that would not be working.”
“Things have already changed (with Trump), immigrants are treated as criminals,” he said.
The Brazilian Minister of Human Rights, Macaé Evaristo, told journalists that “children with autism, with some kind of deficiency, also traveled to journalists, who went through very serious situations.”
Brazil Agreement – United States
The Ministry of Justice instructed the “immediate withdrawal of the wives” to the expelled when the plane arrived in Brazil and repudiated the “flagrant contempt for the fundamental rights” of its citizens, according to an official statement.
The Brazilian authorities emphasized that “the dignity of the human person” is “one of the pillars of the democratic state of law” and configures “unnegotiable values.”
A source from the Brazilian government explained on Friday to the AFP that This deportation “does not keep a direct relationship” with the operation against illegal immigrants initiated in the United States after Trump’s assumption.
“This flight is inserted in another context: a bilateral understanding between Brazil and the United States, of 2017, which remains in force” and that already resulted in other expulsions in previous years, said the source.
The plane was destined for the city of Belo Horizonte (southeast), but due to a technical problem it had to reach Manaos, planned as a scale.
Images of Brazilian television showed some passengers when descending from the civil aircraft, with handcuffed hands and moored ankles.
Humiliating | 🇧🇷🇺🇸😔
🔹 Brazilian citizens land in Brazil on a deportation flight from the US. None of them has a criminal record or committed crimes in that country but were sent with their feet tied and handcuffed.
🔹The government … pic.twitter.com/hc6divqnt8
– El Nacional (@elnacionalpy) January 25, 2025
“The Brazilians who arrived handcuffed were immediately released from wives,” said the Federal Police, “in guarantee of Brazilian sovereignty in national territory.”
The deportees had to stay one night and a day at the airport.
A source of the Brazilian government said that the deportees who arrived in Manaos traveled “with their documents”, which shows that they “agree” with the return to the country.
In Brazil they can “remain released” after having been detained in the United States with “final deportation decision without the possibility of resource,” said the source.
President Lula da Silva ordered this Saturday, January 25 that an aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force assumed the transfer of the expelled to their final destination.
The flight arrived on Saturday at 9:10 p.m. local time (00:10 on Sunday GMT time) Belo Horizonte, found the AFP
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Impasse with Colombia
This Saturday, January 25, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, did not allow the entry of two flights with Colombian deportees from the US.
“A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves. That is why I made the US military planes return that came with Colombian migrants. I can’t make migrants in a country that does not want them; But if that country returns them it must be with dignity and respect, ”Petro wrote in X, before Twitter.
A migrant is not a criminal and must be treated with the dignity that a human being deserves.
That is why I made the US military planes return that came with Colombian migrants.
I can’t make migrants in a country that does not want them; But that country … https://t.co/u1mmwrnio1
– Gustavo Petro (@Petrogustavo) January 26, 2025
Petro’s decision resulted in the closure of the United States Embassy in his country, according to the US State Department to Colombian media this Sunday 26.
After assuming on January 20, Trump ordered several measures against illegal migration, including deportations, the deployment of troops on the border with Mexico and the arrest of 538 people in an irregular situation, according to the White House.
The United States expelled 265 people to Guatemala on Friday.
Trump promised the largest deportation campaign in the history of the United States, where about 11 million people live in an irregular situation.
With information from EFE and AFP.
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