Republican MP from New Mexico, Yvette Herrell, has offered to offer political asylum to protesters in Ottawa who have been dislodged from the Canadian federal capital since Friday.
The elected official indicated that she would introduce legislation that would “temporarily grant asylum to innocent Canadian protesters who are persecuted by their own government”.
“We cannot remain silent while our neighbors to the north are treated so badly,” she wrote in her Twitter post on Saturday morning.
The Republican did not spare Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, accusing his management of the demonstration of “muscular repression” and comparing Canada to an “authoritarian regime like Venezuela”.
“Just as we grant asylum to political prisoners, we should do the same for truckers who have been victims of violence, whose property has been confiscated and bank accounts frozen by a government that is quickly becoming the embarrassment of the free world. “, she said.
Recall that nearly 76 bank accounts linked to the convoys have been frozen this week since the implementation of the Emergency Measures Act by Ottawa.