The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichdemanded this Tuesday, January 16, that Justice expel the foreign who commit crimes in the country and do not have permanent residence in Argentina.
“If there are people who usurp lands that are foreigners who do not have a permanent domicile in Argentina, Justice should proceed to expel them from the country immediately,” the minister said in radio statements.
Along these lines, the member of the president’s Cabinet, Javier Mileyargued: “Whoever comes to usurp, to kill, must be expelled unless he was born in Argentina or has a permanent residence. That is a corrective measure that must be taken immediately.”
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In previous days, several officials expressed themselves in the same sense. The first was the head of Government, Jorge Macriwho demanded the reinstatement of a decree that was signed in 2017, when Bullrich was also in charge of the Security portfolio.
The Buenos Aires Minister of Security did the same, Waldo Wolffwho backed up his claim with City statistics.
“In 2023 alone, in the City we suffer more than 4000 crimesbetween robberies, thefts, drug trafficking and gender violence, at the hands of foreigners (without regularized nationality)”, Wolff detailed on the X social network.
The Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francosalso adhered to the request to expel foreigners who commit crimes in Argentina and considered that they must “comply with the sentence” imposed on them, and then be “expelled from the country with a prohibition on re-entry.”
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In January 2017, the former president Mauricio Macri signed Decree 70, which modified the Migration Law. The rule that the former president had imposed was based on the power of the State to “decide the criteria for admission and expulsion of non-nationals.”
Meanwhile, it created a “very summary special immigration procedure” to deny entry and expel foreign criminals more quickly.
That decree was repealed by the Government of Alberto Fernandez in 2021, who argued that said regulations did not bring substantial improvements in immigration matters, but rather “exponentially aggravated litigation.”
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