Agência Brasil

Members of the Joint Congressional Investigation Committee that is looking into the emigration of Brazilians to the United States and other countries will travel tomorrow (29) to the American city of Laredo, in the state of Texas.

The purpose of the trip is to accompany the repatriation of 300 Brazilian citizens, 199 of them from the state of Minas Gerais. They were all arrested for entering illegally in the US. The group will arrive next Wednesday (3), in Belo Horizonte, on a plane chartered by the US government.

Translation: David Silberstein