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Friday, October 29, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved a resolution strongly condemning the separation of immigrant families in the United States and called for measures to reunify them "the most early possible ".
The resolution, adopted by consensus, expresses "an energetic repudiation of any migration policy that leads to the separation of families because it engenders a practice that violates human rights".
The Permanent Council also encouraged the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to make a regional visit to the border to "observe the consequences of the migration, refugee and asylum policies that have been put in place. by the United States ".
Further requests that the United States Government refrain from automatically returning to its country of origin persons "whose lives or freedoms may be endangered or at risk".
The original text includes a paragraph requiring the United States to "not resort" to the separation of migrant families, but an amendment calling for recently announced measures to end the separation of children and adults in centers detention of immigrants.
A diplomatic source who requested that his identity be preserved, however, AFP commented that the approved amendment resolution allowed his wide support because the proposed text first met some resistance due to the United States.
– "Inhuman and Cruel" Politics –
In introducing the proceedings, the representative of Mexico, Jorge Lomnaco, pointed out that the resolution was not intended to "condemn a country" but "a political one". cruel and inhuman ".
Express the repudiation of such a policy "the just and the right, both legally and morally," said the Mexican diplomat. "We have to raise our voices," he said.
OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro said it was "imperative" to give an urgent mandate to the IACHR to visit the area where this takes away immigrant families.
Venezuelan representative Carmen Velsquez emphasized that the resolution was "late and insufficient" and that she was also unaware of "the inability of the OAS organs to denounce the gross violations of the DH on our continent ".
In the meantime, the representative of the United States, Carlos Trujillo, only cautioned that his delegation would include a footnote in the text of the resolution, but did not object when the document was adopted by consensus.
The text had been inscribed on the agenda of the Permanent Council at the initiative of Mexico, although it immediately received the support of the governments of El Salvador , Honduras and Guatemala.
– Resolution of a huge controversy –
Resolution of the OAS response to the scandal provoked by the American policy of illegal immigration "zero tolerance" and motivated since the month of May by the separation of thousands of children or countries.
A week ago, under strong national and international pressure, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending the automatic criminal prosecution of illegal immigrant adults leading to separation from their families.
However, the fate of some 2,000 miners is unknown.
On Tuesday, a California judge ordered the federal government to give up all separated families in the border region within 30 days under the "zero tolerance" policy.
In the US Congress, however, a plan to reform the immigration system was destroyed this week, partly because of the opposition of the Democratic Party legislators, but fundamentally because of the deep division between Republican lawmakers themselves.
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