Nicaraguan Opposition Figures in Exile Arrested by U.S. Immigration Police
While Washington regularly criticizes the authoritarian practices of Daniel Ortega's government, nine exiled Nicaraguan opposition figures have been arrested by ICE over the past year, according to Le Monde.
According to Le Monde, nine Nicaraguan opposition figures in exile in the United States have been arrested over the past year by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws, while their asylum applications were pending review.
According to the newspaper, these individuals had fled repression carried out by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's regime before finding refuge on American soil. Washington regularly denounces, through political and diplomatic officials, the "dictatorial abuses" attributed to Nicaragua's government, Le Monde notes.
The article highlights the contrast between this critical official American rhetoric toward Ortega's regime and the treatment afforded by U.S. immigration authorities to some of his opposition figures who sought refuge, arrested even as their asylum proceedings were still under review.
Le Monde does not specify, in the excerpt consulted, the full identities of those arrested or the legal grounds invoked by ICE to justify these arrests. It has not been possible at this stage to obtain an official response from American or Nicaraguan authorities on this information.
Sources
- Réprimés au Nicaragua, accueillis aux Etats-Unis puis arrêtés par l’ICE : le sort cruel des opposants à Daniel Ortega — Le Monde — Une
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