Argentina in Advanced Talks to Become Destination for U.S. Deportations

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/world/americas/argentina-us-deportations-immigrants-milei.html

39 Comments

  1. Mysterious-Oil-7094 on

    Ah so that’s what that 40 billion was for. And here I thought it was just to buy a safe place for him to run to.

  2. Anxious-Connection98 on

    So that explains the 40 billion bailout. There is nothing but a transactional relationship with Trump. You can be sure that anything he does, he does for a reason. Some might argue that this is a good thing, but it isn’t. It represents the death of empathy and of anything good in this world if we continue down this path. What goes around comes around. One day, we will need to be on the receiving end of foreign aid, and when that day comes, you can be sure we will be left behind.

  3. Chance-Quantity-59 on

    I understand deportation to a deportee’s country of origin. Every country pretty much has the right to send back non-citizens to where they came from. But how is a deportation to a third country the deportee has nothing to do with even a deportation? What is the end status – they stay locked up in the third country holding area indefinitely? At what point can they leave detention of the third country and return to their home countries?

  4. You know how in SIM City you make enough bad choices and run into some bad debts another city would call you and say they’ll give you some money if you build a prison for their criminals? I imagine the leader of Argentina feels like a shitty SIM City player right now.

  5. Wait – wasn’t there another point in history that Argentina was the destination of choice? The answer is right there , at the tip of my finger, my hand held out in front and above my head, palm flat pointing toward the horizon….

  6. I don’t understand this very well.  If you are deported to a country where you have no citizenship under these agreements, are you granted legal status in the third country, or are you, again, immediately an illegal immigrant?

  7. uniqueusernameCDXX on

    Well at least if I get deported I’ll be right next to my country of birth(uruguay) lol

  8. Wait, Argentina? Rather than what the US bas become/is becoming? Can I be one of the deportees?

  9. Is this something similar to the Rwanda asylum deal the previous UK government tried to orchestrate?

    I suspect the Argentinian government will receive the money and then kick them out to other south American countries.

  10. Traditional_Yam1598 on

    Sounds bad on paper. But what do you realistically do when they throw away their passport before coming into America. It’s a common tactic to claim asylum. So if you can’t prove where you’re from how can they deport you there

  11. Isn’t that where the regime will try to escape to eventually? Like they did after WWII?

  12. Interesting-Dream863 on

    >***Other obstacles include the potential financial burden on Argentina amid budget cuts implemented by Mr. Milei and a lack of infrastructure to house and transport migrants, the records show.***

    When it comes to sucking conservative dong Milei is willing to take debt for the country to do so.

  13. It’s going to be super awkward in 3 years when ICE agents start running into the people they deported down in Argentina.

  14. Useful-Pain-5412 on

    It all makes sense to me now. Isn’t this very close to the place where all the billionaires are building their doomsday bunkers (Patagonia)? I bet this is for slave labour purposes for those sick pricks. They plan on hiding out done there after the US dollar gets replaced. Heaven forbid you have to do anything yourself and do real work

  15. OrganizedChaos1979 on

    It would be helpful if the media would use the word “deport” and all of its tenses correctly.

  16. Anyone who is not originally from Argentina has no status there, essentially they are trafficking these people and deporting them to third world countries into outsourced concentration camps.

  17. UsaforreverNumberone on

    Is it just going to be young underage females, or….. ?

    That reads as a joke, but I am being serious. ICE is a sex trafficking organization.