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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 03 February 2017
ARGENTINA: Macri gov’t at pains to evade Trump comparisons
The latest efforts by the government led by President Mauricio Macri to improve public security have left it open to damning comparisons to the controversial policies espoused by US President Donald Trump since he assumed office on 20 January. Macri has issued an urgent presidential decree (DNU) introducing changes to Argentina’s immigration laws forbidding the entrance and permanence in the country of any foreign nationals with criminal records. The measure, which Macri said would help to combat criminality and make Argentina safer, has been met with stinging criticism from by the political opposition, local civil-society groups and even neighbouring governments, all of whom have denounced it as being regressive and xenophobic.
