The Union of Antarctic and Aduanas of Guyana (CANU, in English) announced the detention of 27 Haitian immigrants and a Cuban who emigrated illegally from Lethem, a locality of suramerican paisia, hacia Brasil.
The detention of these illegal immigrants is being carried out in the wake of this Saturday by agents of the Federal Police of Brazil by a memorandum of understanding between security forces and recent firms.
According to the CANU, “which can be described as a cross-border co-operation example”, a group of taxi drivers who hope to retrieve and transport undocumented immigrants also arrested by Brazilian authorities.
“It is suspected that these undocumented immigrants are trying to use other visas to enter the country, which provide information and help to our Brazilian counterparts, who will alert them to security concerns in the zone”, the CAN indicates.
The CANU explained that an indeterminate number of Haitians arrived in Lethem last week and initially had their negotiations with Brazil.
Last February 18, Brazilian Governor Jair Bolsonaro authorized the use of the Armored Forces on the frontier between Brazil and Peru, the number of foreign migrants was increased, and most Haitians were forced to enter the country during the pandemic. of coronavirus.
The media is looking to help contain the migration of migrants in the small frontier municipality of Assis, where there are at least 500 foreigners, in its Haitian majority, coming from different regions of Brazil.
The municipality of Assis, located in the state of Acre and with about 8,000 inhabitants, is on the verge of collapsing with the logistics necessary to wait for the migrants and tampons to contain the agglomerations and avoid the propagation of the covid-19 , at the moment the new Brazilian variant of the virus, which is more contagious, has spread to various regions of the country.
In accordance with a decree of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security of Brazil, the National Forces support local authorities “in the exceptional and temporal blockade of foreign entry into the country, in an episodic and planned manner”.