News of immigration

Pining for Pinochet: how crime fanned nostalgia for Chile's dictator

04-11-2025 18:40 As crime rates increase in Chile, public anxiety grows and demands for stronger security measures continue.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH?

United States revokes Argentine’s visa for ‘celebrating’ Charlie Kirk’s murder

15-10-2025 14:17 Washington clamps down on free speech, revoking visas of six foreign nationals who celebrated the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk; Among them, Argentine national Serena Luciano.

TRUMP IMPACTS SELECCIÓN

Argentina match moved from Chicago amid Trump immigration stand-off

08-10-2025 22:54 Football match between Argentina and Puerto Rico is being relocated to Florida from Chicago, a day after the Texas National Guard arrived in the third-largest US city.

Immigration & Politics

Chile presidential hopeful vows to deport 'all' undocumented migrants

23-09-2025 13:18 Far-right candidate José Antonio Kast says he will deport all undocumented migrants from national territory if elected.

Foreign relations & diplomacy

Flight carrying Argentines deported from US lands in Buenos Aires

11-09-2025 08:43 First Trump-era deportation flight to Buenos Aires brings 17 Argentines back; Milei government tried to keep operation quiet and will not complain to Washington, but nation has been grouped alongside Brazil and Venezuela by the US administration.

New immigration policy

Milei clamps down on immigration to ‘make Argentina great again’

14-05-2025 15:14 Argentina has long welcomed immigrants with relatively open arms, even offering free healthcare and education to foreign residents. But Milei’s government wants to reverse that.

POLITICS

Milei’s Argentina eyes deportations, tightens immigration rules

14-05-2025 14:50 Milei government says it will tighten access to citizenship, accelerate deportations of foreign nationals with criminal records and make foreigners pay for state healthcare and university education.

POLITICS IN UNITED STATES

Trump says US will detain 30,000 migrants in Guantánamo

30-01-2025 09:30 US President Donald Trump announces that the United States will hold some 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens" at the notorious Guantánamo military detention facility in Cuba as part of his administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.

TRUMP IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN

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.