IDENNA asked UNICEF for a statement on the vulnerability of migrant infants and adolescents

Published at: 17/03/2025 10:49 PM

This Monday morning, the president of the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (IDENNA), Anahi Arizmendi, went to the office of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), to request that the agency take a decision on what she considered to be the application of a “law of war” against the civilian population that, she said, “will affect the comprehensive protection and rights of children and adolescents who are migrants in the United States.”

In this way, Arismendi referred to the Foreign Enemy Act, on which the U.S. government relied to deport 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador this weekend, and which Venezuela denounces, not only because it considers it a violation of Human Rights, but also because it criminalizes migration.

The president of Idenna delivered a statement to the agency in which she asks José Ramón Espinoza, deputy representative of UNICEF Venezuela, to rule on the order issued by the Government of Donald Trump in the United States to detain, “all Venezuelans who are at least 14 years old, without the guarantee of due process, placing the migrant child and adolescent population, who are naturalized or are legal permanent residents, in a state of defenselessness and at risk of be prosecuted as adults for trying to link them to organizations such as the Aragua Train”, according to the official document.

In the same way, the statement highlights complaints made by human rights organizations in the United States, according to which permanent abuses are committed in detention centers for migrant children.

Mazo News Team