The operations add to other recent cases of Chinese citizens detected without legal entry records
The procedures supplement other similar episodes recorded in recent months. At the beginning of September, five other Chinese citizens were expelled after being detected during a control on National Route 14, in Corrientes. They were coming from Puerto Iguazú and traveling to Buenos Aires without documentation proving their regular entry.
National Gendarmerie expelled nine Chinese citizens who had illegally entered Argentina from Brazil, following two operations carried out in the province of Misiones. Seven of them were detected at the Posadas Bus Terminal as they were preparing to travel to the City of Buenos Aires.
The first operation was conducted by members of Squadron 50 “Posadas,” who were performing documentation checks at the terminal. There, they identified seven Chinese citizens who were scheduled to board a long-distance bus with a final destination to the Federal Capital.
When requesting the corresponding documentation, the agents verified that they could not prove a legal entry into Argentine territory. Due to the irregularity, the National Migration Directorate was involved, which ordered their expulsion through the Tancredo Neves International Bridge, connecting Puerto Iguazú with Foz do Iguaçu.
In a second operation, members of Squadron 13 “Iguazú” transported two other Chinese citizens who, according to official information, had also illegally entered the country from Brazil. In this case, the National Migration Directorate, along with the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Puerto Iguazú, intervened to guide the continuation of the proceedings and the subsequent expulsion to Brazilian territory.
Additionally, in July, five other Chinese citizens had been intercepted in Misiones while traveling on a bus heading to La Plata. Authorities confirmed that they also did not have a legal entry into the country and ordered their expulsion and handover to Brazilian authorities.
Thus, the three operations known since July involved 19 Chinese citizens detected without regular migration records, all subsequently expelled from Argentine territory.
The new operations once again highlight migration controls at the border with Brazil and the vulnerabilities of that entry route, at a time when Argentina has tightened its migration policy and the Lula regime seems to disregard control.
