News of immigration

Brazil slams US after dozens of deportees arrive handcuffed

26-01-2025 09:29 Brazil's Foreign Ministry said it would demand an explanation from Washington over the "degrading treatment of passengers" on a flight deporting dozens of immigrants from United States.

Trump Takeover

Triumphant Trump set for return to power

20-01-2025 11:16 Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States, vowing mass migrant deportation and retribution against his opponents.

MEMORY LANE WITH FRANCIS

Francis recounts 'mischievous' youth in autobiography

15-01-2025 12:33 Argentine pontiff reminisces on a childhood spent eating pizza, walking the streets and getting up to no good in his Buenos Aires neighbourhood.

VISITING BRITAIN

UK extends travel entry scheme to non-EU countries

08-01-2025 10:18 Visitors from 48 non-European countries, including Argentina, now need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to enter the UK.

Political crisis in Bolivia

Peru braces for Bolivian migration wave amid turmoil

12-11-2024 11:25 Peru, along with other Latin American nations, are cautiously monitoring economic and political instability in Bolivia.

POLLS & SURVEYS

Chile overwhelmingly scorns immigration, poll shows

31-10-2024 10:43 Chileans are demanding stricter immigration controls much more than neighbours in other Latin American nations, according to a new poll, as an influx of newcomers upends politics in one of the region’s richest economies.

Day of the Immigrant

Bhavna Sharma: Diversity makes us stronger

04-09-2024 06:52 I feel there is a thread that unites Argentine and British people: the conviction that diversity makes us stronger.

RIOTS IN UNITED KINGDOM

UK PM Starmer vows no let up in stopping further far-right riots

08-08-2024 15:23 Keir Starmer insists UK authorities will maintain a crackdown on violent far-right disorder plaguing British streets.

IMMIGRATION

Venezuelans now third-biggest immigrant community in Argentina

16-01-2024 17:44 Behind Paraguayans and Bolivians, Venezuelans now make up 8.4% of Argentina’s immigrant population, according to the INDEC national statistics bureau.

CRIME & SECURITY

Jorge Macri: ‘We need to deport foreigners who commit crimes’

11-01-2024 15:33 Buenos Aires City mayor calls for deportation of criminals after City Police arrest three criminals with no Argentine citizenship.

EDITORIAL

Schools for scandal

07-07-2023 13:05 An eternal orphan of election campaigns, education has started to creep into public discussion despite stiff competition from the usual headlines.

MIGRATION & HUMAN RIGHTS

Migration 'only option' for many in Latin America, says food aid chief

05-07-2023 12:19 Many people in Latin America see migration as "the only option they have" after enduring successive crises of climate change, Covid and spiking food prices, says World Food Programme's head for the region Lola Castro.

PERU IMMIGRATION

Peru deploys military to block undocumented migrants

27-04-2023 13:20 Peru's president decrees state of emergency at the country's borders and sends troops to reinforce checkpoints and block undocumented migrants making their way north from Chile.

Pregnant Russians in Buenos Aires

Russians choose Argentina’s 100% inflation over Putin’s war

08-03-2023 12:34 Buenos Aires is providing an unlikely haven for middle-class Russians who have given up on their homeland.

Pregnant Russians

Argentina: Criminal groups are luring Russian mums-to-be

13-02-2023 09:09 Criminal organisations are luring pregnant Russian women into Argentina with so-called childbirth tourism packages, declares National Director of Immigration Florencia Carignano.

‘BIRTH TOURISM’ ARRIVALS

Police raids in Buenos Aires as authorities probe pregnant Russian arrivals

12-02-2023 12:50 Immigration officials and justice system probing reasons behind surge of pregnant Russian women arriving to Argentina to give birth; Criminal investigation opened by federal courts to investigate reasons behind massive influx, with numbers growing month by month.

Immigration issue

Russian mums-to-be flock to Argentina seeking safety, passports

11-02-2023 15:27 More than 30 expecting Russian mothers arrived in Buenos Aires on a single international flight on Thursday evening, the latest among thousands of mums-to-be who are travelling Argentina to give birth.