Brazilian officials demanded that U.S. agents remove handcuffs from a group of deportees who were flown to the South American country on Friday, with a prominent minister in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government calling the practice "blatant disrespect" for the rights of his fellow citizens.

Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to seek explanations from the U.S. government over the "degrading treatment" of Brazilians on a deportation flight, the ministry wrote on X on Saturday night.

The Brazilian government has condemned the arrival of a deportation flight from the US with passengers in handcuffs, deeming it a 'flagrant disregard' for their rights. The incident, affecting 88 deported Brazilians,

Brazil’s government expressed outrage on Saturday after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a “flagrant disregard” for their rights. The spat comes as Latin America grapples with US President Donald Trump’s return to power with a hard-line anti-immigration agenda,