For the CSMM, this is a violation of human rights and an “open challenge to regional stability and peace.”
In a statement, signed by its coordinator, Pablo A. de la Vega, the organization warned that US President Donald Trump’s executive orders on migration not only generate despair and panic, but also violate international legality.
“Trying to turn an oppressive and illegal military base imposed by anachronistic decisions and force on sovereign territory of the Republic of Cuba into a ‘concentration camp’ for immigrants is an unacceptable legal ploy,” the CSMM said in the document.
In a statement, the Cuban Foreign Ministry stressed that the territory where Trump proposes to send the migrants does not belong to the United States, as it is a portion of the eastern province of Guantánamo, which remains militarily occupied illegally and against the will of the Caribbean island.
According to the CSMM, the measures of the current US administration respond to an immigration policy based on “myths and fictitious premises” that, instead of resolving the situation, encourage racial discrimination and xenophobia in the United States. They also warned of the danger that these decisions could set a precedent for the transfer of migrants to other countries through “opaque conventions or illegal treaties.”
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