A coalition of ten non-governmental organizations (NGOs) denounced this Friday in a report the Government of President Donald Trump before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for “abuses and illegalities against migrants.”
The report, presented by more than ten organizations, including Amnesty International, accuses the Republican Administration of committing “generalized” violations of human rights and refugee law.
The organizations point to the disappearance of hundreds of migrants in government custody, arbitrary “and illegal” detentions, “unbearable” conditions, medical negligence and “abuse in immigration prisons.”
They also accuse the Government of deporting migrants to countries where they face dangerous conditions and of wanting to hide abuses by blocking access to lawyers and retaliating against “lawyers, journalists, activists and public officials.”
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The United States “is terrorizing immigrants through disappearance and mass detention tactics that have caused the separation of families,” Margaret Cargioli, attorney director of policy and advocacy at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImDef), one of the organizations that prepared the report, said in a statement.
In the complaint, the coalition asks the IACHR to ask the Trump Administration to allow it to visit the detention centers, to learn first-hand about the conditions, while also requesting information about the aforementioned abuses and publishing an independent report.
This complaint joins dozens of others made by organizations inside and outside the United States, including several UN officials, against different aspects of the Trump Administration’s campaign to detain and deport a “historic” number of migrants.
In compliance with its electoral offers, the US Executive has deployed various operations to detain migrants in various cities across the country, focusing in recent weeks on Chicago where federal agents have detained more than 1,500 people since September 9, according to official data.
With information from EFE
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