US EditionJavier Milei tightens Argentina’s immigration rules in nod to Donald Trump
- Argentina announced a comprehensive immigration policy overhaul on May 15, 2025, tightening rules on entry, residency, and citizenship nationwide.
- The government cited concerns over unchecked immigration, 1.7 million undocumented arrivals in 20 years, lax deportation, and healthcare tourism to justify reforms.
- The new rules require all entrants to have health insurance, criminal convictions lead to immediate expulsion regardless of sentence length, and temporary residents must pay for healthcare and university services.
- Spokesperson Manuel Adorni announced that moving forward, immigration authorities will deny entry to any individual with a criminal conviction, while highlighting that, over the course of one year, eight public hospitals allocated 114 billion pesos to provide medical care for non-citizens.
- The measures aim to reduce irregular immigration and financial burdens on public services while preserving free primary and secondary education as mandated by Argentina’s constitution.
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Copy Trump: Milei Announces Immigration Reform That Limits Access to Health and Facilitates Deportations · Global Voices
On Wednesday, the government of the ultra-rightist Javier Milei ordered modifications to the immigration regime of Argentina that tighten the requirements for obtaining citizenship, facilitate the deportation of convicted persons and eliminate gratuitousness in the public health system, among other measures. The reform is provided for in a decree of necessity and urgency that will be published in the next few hours, from which it will be in forc…
Milei’s Argentina eyes deportations, tightens immigration rules
President Javier Milei’s government says it will tighten access to citizenship, accelerate deportations of foreign nationals with criminal records and introduce new charges for foreigners using healthcare and university education systems.
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