Izquierda Unida rejects the persecution of Venezuelan migrants by the US government

Published at: 24/03/2025 08:58 PM

The Spanish political, social and cultural movement United Left (IU) strongly condemned the decision of the United States government to invoke the Foreign Enemies Act of 1798 to justify systematic persecution against the Venezuelan migrant community, the IU website reported.

It highlights that this archaic norm, used historically in war contexts, is used by the Trump administration arbitrarily and for political purposes, violating fundamental principles of international law and human rights.

The sole objective of this measure is to criminalize and stigmatize the Venezuelan diaspora, depriving them of their basic rights and exposing them to arbitrary deportation, forced separation of families and the use of third countries as extrajudicial detention centers, which constitute a practice against humanity.

It specifies that the recent deportation of 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador, without trial or due process, is a mass kidnapping carried out with the complicity of President Nayib Bukele and the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

We reject this racist and xenophobic policy, which the Trump administration is using against all of Latin America and the Caribbean, setting a dangerous precedent for transnational repression.

We also denounce the expropriation of migrants' assets in the United States, as well as the unacceptable threat of summarily describing children under 14 as “terrorists”.

IU denounces that these actions clearly represent institutional racism and xenophobia on the part of a government that has turned the right to migrate into a crime and a scapegoat for all the country's problems.

These actions violate the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights, which includes the right to migrate as a human right, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

IU joins the calls and complaints of several governments in the Latin American region, with whom we are united by historical ties and current fraternal relations, to demand respect for the human rights of Latin American migrants, and in this case we express all our solidarity with deported Venezuelan migrants, in the face of these actions typical of an authoritarian, neofascist and ultra-right government that ignores the United Nations and international law from the first decisions of its term of office.

Mazo News Team