President Maduro: Foreign Enemies Act violates international law and is an embarrassment even for the United States

Published at: 29/03/2025 07:59 PM

During the meeting with the foreign ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, emphasized that the Law on Foreign Enemies that the United States seeks to apply against Venezuelan migrants is illegal and embarrassing, even for the North American nation.

“I told the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) (António) Guterres that this is a Law, prior to international humanitarian law of the United Nations, it is a Law that is outside the legal framework of human rights and is outside the framework of international law that protects migrants in a special way, what is more, it is a Law that is outside the constitutional and legal context of the Constitution of the United States”, he pointed out.

He recalled that this legislation, which dates back to 1798, has been applied only three times, the most recent being the one carried out in the 40s of the 20th century, when it was applied against Japanese residents in the United States who were taken to concentration camps, generating the rejection of Americans and the world.

“The historic scandal caused by the law of enemies was with the concentration camps against the Japanese in the United States (...) what they did to the Japanese in those concentration camps inside the United States was so scandalous that no one ever dared to invoke that law,” he said.

The head of state called this attempt “embarrassing” because of its application against Venezuelan and Latin American migrants and did not hesitate to point out that what is being carried out today against migrants from the Bolivarian nation emulates the actions of those against Jews.

“It's a shame what's happening,” he said.

Mazo News Team