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Revealed: Ice teams up with Nicaragua even as US decries Ortega's crackdown
Source: The Guardian
Revealed: Ice teams up with Nicaragua even as US decries Ortega’s crackdown
White House condemns Daniel Ortega’s ‘indiscriminate violence’ while countries join forces to deport Nicaraguans from US
Charles Davis
Fri 3 Aug 2018 11.00 BST Last modified on Fri 3 Aug 2018 14.50 BST
The Trump administration is quietly partnering with a government it publicly accuses of killing its own people, in an effort to speed up the deportation of Nicaraguan citizens, the Guardian can reveal.
The partnership between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the government of Nicaragua’s president, Daniel Ortega, began a week before mass protests erupted in the Central American country, and it continues despite a war of words between Washington and Managua.
This week, the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, declared the Ortega government responsible for “indiscriminate violence” that has left scores dead and thousands injured since protests began three months ago. “The United States stands with the people of Nicaragua,” she said.
Ortega, meanwhile, has described the protesters as coup-plotters and terrorists involved in a US-backed conspiracy.
But when it comes to deporting Nicaraguans who live in the United States, the two governments are still working hand in hand.
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White House condemns Daniel Ortega’s ‘indiscriminate violence’ while countries join forces to deport Nicaraguans from US
Charles Davis
Fri 3 Aug 2018 11.00 BST Last modified on Fri 3 Aug 2018 14.50 BST
The Trump administration is quietly partnering with a government it publicly accuses of killing its own people, in an effort to speed up the deportation of Nicaraguan citizens, the Guardian can reveal.
The partnership between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the government of Nicaragua’s president, Daniel Ortega, began a week before mass protests erupted in the Central American country, and it continues despite a war of words between Washington and Managua.
This week, the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, declared the Ortega government responsible for “indiscriminate violence” that has left scores dead and thousands injured since protests began three months ago. “The United States stands with the people of Nicaragua,” she said.
Ortega, meanwhile, has described the protesters as coup-plotters and terrorists involved in a US-backed conspiracy.
But when it comes to deporting Nicaraguans who live in the United States, the two governments are still working hand in hand.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/us-nicaragua-partner-violence-ice-deportations
