The Brazilian government asked Washington for the “degrading treatment” of Brazilian illegal migrants on Saturday during their expulsion by the United States, on Saturday, the first episode of tension between the governments of Donald Trump and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
While the White House features the anti-immigration offensive promised by the Republican since its inauguration, Brazil will apply for an “request for an explanation of the American government on the degrading treatment of the flight passengers” from the United States and Arrived Friday in Manaus (North), said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on X.
According to the government, 88 Brazilians were on the plane.
“On the plane, they did not give us water, we were bound feet and fists, and they did not even let us go to the toilet,” Edgar Da Silva Moura, a computer scientist of 31, told AFP 31 years old, who arrived in the flight after seven months of detention in the United States.
“It was too hot, some have passed out,” he added.
Luis Antonio Rodrigues Santos, a 21 -year -old self -employed, said the “nightmare” of some expelled suffering from “respiratory problems” who spent “four hours without air conditioning” because of technical problems, adding that a reactor “was working not”. “Things have already changed (with Trump), migrants are treated as criminals,” he said.
According to the Brazilian minister responsible for human rights, Macaé Evaristo, the plane also transported “autistic children, or suffering from a handicap, who have experienced very serious situations”.
The Ministry of Justice ordered the American authorities to “immediately withdraw the handcuffs” when the plane carrying the expelled landed in Manaus, denouncing the “flagrant contempt for fundamental rights” of its citizens, according to a statement.
The Brazilian authorities also recalled that “the dignity of the human person” is “one of the pillars of the rule of democratic law” and is “non -negotiable values”.
A Brazilian government source stressed AFP on Friday that this expulsion “had no direct relationship” with the illegal immigrant operation launched in the United States after the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20.
“This flight is part of another context: a bilateral agreement between Brazil and the United States, of 2017, which remains in force,” said this source.
-– Handed hands and ankles –
The plane was heading for the city of Belo Horizonte (southeast), but due to a technical problem to land in Manaus, initially planned as a stopover.
TV images have shown passengers descend from the device, hands and ankles hampered.
“The Brazilians who arrived handcuffed were immediately released from their handcuffs,” said the police, “as a guarantee of Brazilian sovereignty on the national territory”.
President Lula ordered the transfer of the Brazilian Air Force on the final destination to the final destination, Belo Horizonte on Saturday. They arrived around 9:00 p.m. locals (00:00 GMT), noted an AFP journalist.
Donald Trump promised during his campaign to launch “the biggest expulsion program in American history”. The White House was boasted this week from the arrest of hundreds of “illegal criminal migrants”, stressing that they had been expelled by military aircraft rather than civilian, as it was previously.
Friday, 265 migrants expelled from the United States landed in Guatemala in three flights, local authorities according to.
The White House also reported four planes carrying migrants expelled from Mexico, which Mexico has not confirmed, who nevertheless said he was ready to cooperate with Washington.
A Brazilian government source said that the expelled people had arrived in Manaus “with their documents”, which shows that they “agreed” to return to their country. They will be able to “stay free” in Brazil, after being detained in the United States after “a final expulsion decision without the possibility of appeal,” said the source.
