The Brazil government condemned on Saturday the “contempt for fundamental rights” of 88 Brazilians deported from USA who were handcuffed during the trip, according to a government statement.
The Brazilian Ministry of Justice ordered the US authorities for the “immediate withdrawal of the wives” when the plane with the expelled landed in Manaos, in repudiation of the “flagrant contempt for the fundamental rights” of its citizens, reported in an official note.
A source of the Brazilian government explained on Friday to the AFP that this deportation “does not keep a direct relationship” with the Operation against illegal immigrants Started in the United States after the assumption on January 20 of Donald Trump.
“This flight is inserted in another context: a bilateral understanding between Brazil and the United States, of 2017, which remains in force,” said the source.
In the official note, Brazil’s authorities They emphasized that “the dignity of the human person” is “one of the pillars of the democratic state of law” and configures “unnegotiable values.”
The Federal Police (PF) reported in another statement that the flight from the United States landed on Friday night with “88 Brazilians” on board.
The aircraft I was destined for the city of Belo Horizontebut presented a technical problem and had to spend the night in Manaos, originally planned as a scale.
“The Brazilians who arrived handcuffed were immediately liberated from the wives,” said the PF, “in guarantee of Brazilian sovereignty in national territory.”
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaordered this Saturday that a Brazilian Air Force plane assumes the transfer of deportees to the final destination, Belo Horizonte.
In his first days of mandate, 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 illegal situation, as the White House reported Thursday night.
Also, Friday 265 people from the United States to Guatemala were deportedalthough the authorities of both countries have not clarified whether they are part of the group of arrested.
