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After hours of uncertainty, opposition deputy Ómar González said that the deportees were found in Delta Amacuro, a secluded region in western Venezuela.
According to the legislator, the children will return to the island at the request of a Trinidadian judge, after multiple complaints were raised about the way they had been deported, some of them separated from their parents.
[#ATENCIÓN] Deputy Omar González confirms that the 16 children deported from Trinidad and Tobago are “safe and sound” in La Barra; a pipe from the Orinoco.
He assures that a judge ordered that the minors return to the island so as not to disintegrate the family https://t.co/1nG5DHHqnG pic.twitter.com/pd0ptsk0WL– NTN24 Venezuela (@ NTN24ve) November 24, 2020
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) expressed concern about the situation following the complaints about the disappearance of migrants and urged Trinidad and Tobago to “guarantee the entry” of Venezuelans “seeking international protection for humanitarian reasons ”.
Attorney Nafeesa Mohammed, who asked to investigate the case and demanded that Keith Rowley’s government reconsider the handling of the migration crisis linked to the arrival of Venezuelans, said that on Friday he asked the immigration authorities that the children be turned over to their parents, after being arrested upon entering the country last Tuesday and sent to the Erin police station, about 98 kilometers from Port of Spain.
The lawyer said that she requested a virtual hearing on Sunday afternoon, when a court demanded that the Chief of the Defense Staff, the highest military post in Trinidad and Tobago, present the migrants to court. However, he said that when the hearing resumed this Monday, the Coast Guard commander reported that they had already been escorted to the maritime boundary.
The father of one of the children told AFP that he has lived in Trinidad and Tobago for two years and that he sent money to Venezuela to help his wife take care of their four children. “Every day it is more critical and difficult for them to survive, so I told my wife to come here with our oldest daughter,” he said.
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