Human Rights Watch – US: Victims of Nicaraguan Government Risk Deportation

 Human Rights Watch reports that U.S. immigration authorities have detained at least eight Nicaraguan exiles whom the Nicaraguan government stripped of their nationality, including some with pending asylum claims. 

Seven of the people detained were among 222 political prisoners whom the Nicaraguan government expelled to the United States, declared “traitors,” and stripped of their nationality on February 9, 2023. The U.S. government granted them humanitarian parole for two years. The eighth, Luis Galeano, a journalist, was stripped of his nationality, along with 93 other government critics. People with knowledge of their cases told Human Rights Watch that at least four had pending asylum claims.