Argentina sees migration ban and border wall proposals in immigration row

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Argentina sees migration ban and border wall proposals in immigration row

President Mauricio Macri triggers backlash from Bolivia after
banning entry for foreign citizens with criminal convictions –
as legislator proposes border wall

Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Friday 3 February 2017 07.00 GMT

Amid a racially charged national debate on immigration, a former real estate tycoon-turned-president signs an executive order to stop some foreign migrants entering his country and to deport foreign residents with criminal records.

There is even talk of building a border wall, while intemperate language prompts a backlash from a neighbouring country.

But this is not Donald Trump’s America and the wall is not intended to exclude Mexicans.

At the other end of the Americas, Argentina’s millionaire president Mauricio Macri triggered a diplomatic spat with regional neighbours this week after he signed a controversial order to rein in migration.

Macri’s centre-right government has said that the immigration order is intended to fight the rising wave of drug-related crime, which it claims is partly due to an influx of migrants from Argentina’s northern neighbours.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/03/argentina-sees-migration-ban-and-border-wall-proposals-in-immigration-row

[Xipe Totec]

1. Well, Argentina would have been the 12th state of the Confederacy.

So, no surprise.

[tenorly]

2. I believe you're thinking of Brazil.

Brazil, which maintained legal - and very widespread - slavery until 1888, supported the CSA and, once the Civil War ended, welcomed some 20,000 Confederate exiles.

Some resumed their activities as slave plantation owners, and even today continue to celebrate their heritage as such quite openly. Here's an example reported recently by the BBC:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33245800

Slavery did exist in Argentina in Colonial times; but never really took hold and was in fact abolished by its first constitution in 1813.

[Xipe Totec]

3. I believe you're thinking of the 13th. Brazil was much too dark. nt

[Judi Lynn]

4. Here's an article posted here in 2015 regarding Brazilian US Confederate slave owners:

American Civil War commemorated way down south of Dixie
By JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press | April 27, 2015 | Updated: April 27, 2015 4:09pm



SANTA BARBARA D'OESTE, Brazil (AP) — It had all the trappings of a down-home country fair somewhere well below the Mason-Dixon line: Lynyrd Skynyrd medleys, mile-long lines for fried chicken, barbeque and draft beer, and a plethora of Confederate flags emblazoning everything from belt buckles to motorcycle vests to trucker caps.

But Sunday's party marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War took place about 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) south of the South, in a rural Brazilian town colonized by families fleeing Reconstruction.

For many of the residents of Santa Barbara d'Oeste and neighboring Americana in Brazil's southeastern Sao Paulo state, having Confederate ancestry is a point of pride that's celebrated in high style at the annual "Festa dos Confederados," or "Confederates Party" in Portuguese.

Thousands turn out every year, including many who trace their ancestry back to the dozens of families who, enticed by the Brazilian government's offers of land grants, settled here from 1865 to around 1875. They're joined by country music enthusiasts, history buffs and locals with a hankering for buttermilk biscuits or a fondness for "The Dukes of Hazzard."

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/American-Civil-War-commemorated-way-down-south-of-6226096.php



http://www.democraticunderground.com/110840288

[Judi Lynn]

5. Argentine major dork, Alfredo Olmedo, was quoted in the article, praising Trump

and his contemptible vision for US American immigrants.

He is also mentioned in this local article, from his home area in Argentina. Google translation:

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He loves to wear his yellow jacket. [/center]

POLITICS
Olmedo tried to approve a message of support to Trump and was denied
11/17/2016. With a pin in the chest of the magnate, the deputy asked that the Chamber of Deputies transmit "the greater of the successes" to Donald Trump, but did not have supports.

Olmedo tried to approve a message of support to Trump and was denied
At the special session that occurred yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies there was an exclusive protagonist Alfredo Olmedo . The leader of Salta Somos Todos distributed hats to greyhound breeders who clashed yesterday with a group of protectionists who asked to ban the race of that breed of dogs and asked that the body send a message of support to the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump .

Olmedo, who came to Congress with his traditional yellow jacket and a pin on the right side with the photo of Trump, wanted the special session called to discuss different projects to include his proposal.

In the bill presented on the 10th, the legislator for Salta expressed his "approval for the democratic reaffirmation in the last presidential elections held on November 8, 2016 in the United States of America."

He also requested that the president-elect be transmitted "protocolarily" "the greatest success in this new challenge, recognizing the excellent performance, work and commitment assumed."

The order aroused the rejection of most of the political blocs and their own province as the Workers ' Party deputy Pablo Lopez , he came to disown through social networks.

http://www.ahorasalta.com.ar/noticias/politica-4/olmedo-intento-aprobar-un-mensaje-de-apoyo-a-trump-y-se-lo-negaron-405

[tenorly]

6. He's typical of Macri's "Let's Change" caucus in Congress.

Although they're not all quite so stupid as to be this openly racist.

Like in the U.S. though, the Argentine right has learned to be quite adept at dog whistle politics - though in Macri's case it won't help him much given the dire straits he's pushed so many voters into.

People - white or tawny - don't like paying 10 times more for their utilities (a tax increase, essentially), when they know the wealthy are getting a fat tax cut on the other end.

Thanks for taking the time to dig this up, Judi. Here's a Salta postcard for you, to help forget that nasty little congressman of theirs.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Remarkable! It looks as if it would be so much fun hiking around this place, exploring.

It looks so relaxing, the mountains are beautiful, one can almost smell the clean air from looking at the photo!

Lucky are the people who live there. Hope they all ignore the crooked politicians among them!

The area itself looks like a very peaceable kingdom.