US citizen deported at Ezeiza

[Bajo_cero2]

Yesterday a US cirizen was deported at Ezeiza for the abuse of the I-94 (tourist visa). FYI.

 

[mmoon]

More information please. Was it someone who had entered and exited multiple times, seemingly on visa runs? Or someone who overstayed?

 

[perry]

There has been a massive increase of deportations of foreign residents residing in Argentina the last year. I certainly would not feel comfortable being here on a tourist visa doing the Uruguay run now.

 

[demokritos]

I'm a friend of the guy who was barred entry. I believe he was taking trips to Colonia, not overstaying, and that he was not warned about being barred from the country, but I'll try to confirm with him.

 

[demokritos]

He had overstays but was never warned by a border agent that he was in danger of being barred entry before yesterday.

 

[Somewhereinba]

"not overstaying" > "had overstays" - what.... The poor guy probably fell in love with an Argentine - now the honeymoon is over.

 

[mmoon]

There has been a massive increase of deportations of foreign residents residing in Argentina the last year. I certainly would not feel comfortable being here on a tourist visa doing the Uruguay run now.

Agreed. I wonder what Argentina gains and loses (particularly financially) due to this crackdown. Since they turned a blind eye for so many years to the perma-tourists, they must have thought it was a boon to the economy or worth it to be considered an expat hot spot.

 

[camel]

We have the numerator (1), but what is the denominator? The statistic is almost meaningless without the denominator. If we have 1 deportation for this every 6 months, and we have 100,000 entries, then we have 0.001% deportations. You can adjust the denominator as necessary to get the statistic you want. For example, if we know 1000 "permatourists" enter every 6 months, and 1 is deported, then we have 0.1% deportations of permatourists. But I doubt this last number is published.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

Agreed. I wonder what Argentina gains and loses (particularly financially) due to this crackdown. Since they turned a blind eye for so many years to the perma-tourists, they must have thought it was a boon to the economy or worth it to be considered an expat hot spot.

There is no reason on xenophobia, it is irrational.

 

[Pensador]

That's how the lottery works.