By Luciana Magalhaes
Sao Paulo (Reuters) – Brazilian officials demanded that US representatives remove handcuffs from a group of deported people who were flown to the South American country on Friday with a prominent minister in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is “obvious fornication” “For practice, the rights of his fellow citizens call.
The federal police, who acted under the instructions of the Brazilian Minister of Justice Ricardo Lewandowski, met the flight after making an unexpected landing in the Amazon city of Manaus due to technical problems, the Brazilian government announced on Saturday.
The plane, which transported 88 Brazilian passengers, 16 US security officers and eight crew members, originally arrived in Belo Horizonte in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the explanation says.
The handcuffs were removed from the passengers after the Brazilian police’s intervention, the government said.
After he had been informed about the incident, Lula ordered that the passengers on board a Brazilian aircraft will be flown into their final goal to ensure that, according to a statement by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, they could end their journey with “dignity and security”.
This year the flight was the second from the United States with migrants without papers, which, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and the Federal Police, had been withdrawn to Brazil on Monday and the first since US President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday.
The Trump government has introduced a comprehensive approach to immigration, whereby the Republican President promised to use mass shifts to remove undocumented migrants in the USA
The use of handcuffs and other restrictions for migrants who were deported on flights from the United States to Brazil has dissolved controversies in the South American nation. The conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump -allied, also called for a stop in practice.
Officials from the US Ministry of Homeland Protection as well as US immigration and customs authority did not immediately respond to inquiries.
