The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans ask the United States government for explanations for the “degrading treatment” that Brazilians received on a deportation flight, according to what the ministry wrote on the social network X on Saturday night.
The Brazilians deported from the United States arrived in Brazil in handcuffs on Friday. Upon arrival, some of the passengers also reported mistreatment during the flight, according to local reports.
The plane, in which 88 Brazilian passengers were traveling, 16 American security agents and eight crew members were initially scheduled to arrive in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, in the southeast of the country. However, it made an unscheduled stop in Manaus, capital of Amazonas, due to technical problems, according to Brazil’s Justice Ministry.
There, the Brazilian authorities ordered the removal of the handcuffs and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva designated a flight of the Brazilian Air Force to complete his tripas reported by the government in a statement on Saturday.
The flight was the second this year from the United States transporting deported undocumented immigrants back to Brazil. and the first since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, according to the Brazilian Federal Police.
Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Contacted late Saturday for comment they did not immediately respond.
