Joselin Monte, a Nicaraguan journalist about to be deported back to her country, requests “help from the immigration authorities” of the United States so that the deportation order is revoked.
The emergency call is made from the immigration detention center in Pompano where she is being held after she arrived in the US at the beginning of the year after receiving threats from the Ortega-Murillo regime.
Pablo Cuevas, director of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Ombudsman, says that they began “to harass and threaten Monte, she had to stay in other houses outside her home.”
The 33-year-old journalist faces a deportation order, as her lawyer Osley Sallent explains. “Right now the US government is denying her the right to bail and is also denying her the right to present an asylum case because in 2016 she tried to enter the country for a visa and was denied by an immigration agent” .
But both human rights organizations and her mother in Nicaragua fear for the young woman’s safety if she is deported to her country.
Fanny González, the young woman’s mother, begs from Nicaragua that she not be deported because her daughter could be murdered “as a mother I beg you with all my heart to review my daughter’s case, I ask you with my heart in my hand.”
“We are trying to file a claim through the torture commission, arguing that if she is returned to Nicaragua she will be tortured by the Sandinista government.”
“Torture in Nicaragua is characteristic of a repressive action by the dictatorship”, it is evident that Joselin would be subjected to torture if she returned to Nicaragua.
On July 5th will be his first hearing before the judge, where they will ask him to be released on bail and to stop this deportation order.
