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

[highplainsdem]

Source: NYT

The United States and Argentina are in advanced talks to sign an agreement that would allow the U.S. to deport immigrants from other countries to the South American nation, according to two people familiar with the negotiations and U.S. government records obtained by The New York Times.

The negotiations come as the Trump administration has mobilized a sweeping and aggressive deportation effort, including deploying immigration officers to U.S. cities, sometimes with fatal consequences.

The talks also come as the Argentine government has escalated anti-immigrant rhetoric under President Javier Milei, including claiming to have made record numbers of expulsions and sending the police on immigration enforcement operations in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, the capital.

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While an agreement has not been finalized, the talks highlight Mr. Milei’s eagerness to strengthen his alliance with the United States and support President Trump’s crackdown even as it risks clashing with his own anti-immigration push at home.

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

[jls4561]

1. So that's what $40 million buys.

Just in case you forgot:

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-demands-answers-on-role-of-maga-hedge-fund-manager-in-trump-s-40-billion-argentina-bailout

[Submariner]

4. That's $40 BILLION with a B

[jls4561]

5. I stand corrected on the amount but not the sentiment.

[in2herbs]

2. I was thinking the same thing! nt

[Captain Zero]

3. Me 3.

[Boomerproud]

6. AKA The land of the "disappeared" 1970s.

Chile as well, I know. I'm as as worried as I've ever been.

[peppertree]

7. Milei has a real problem there though: his own right-wing voters

Argentine right-wing voters - particularly those from Buenos Aires - are utterly obsessed with what they see as the "browning" of Argentina.

To a person, they'll regale you with tales of how "almost everyone here was white until democracy returned (in 1983)."

And how this - and not massive offshoring by elites, and the foreign debt taken on to finance it - is what "has ruined the country."

And this group, are (for the most part) rabid Milei backers.

If he signs anything that implies allowing "negros de mierda" (an epithet racists use for anyone dark-skinned, mainly the indigenous) into the country, they'll turn on him quickly - and they're all he has anymore (having ruined an already bad economy).