Director of Migrations, "Iranians should be expelled from the country as soon as they are released by the law"

Nearly two days after the political scandal provoked publicly by the two Iranian suspects irregularly entered Argentina, the national director of Migrations, Horacio García, declared that "Argentina has complied with all international standards in matter of detecting foreigners and does not want these Iranian citizens to stay longer than a minute, then if justice releases them, they will automatically be expelled. "

Garcia acknowledged that there was "a human flaw" in the migrations by not respecting the regular command channel to prevent the entry of Iranians and ratified the fact that the two officials who authorized the suspects to enter the country have been fired and are currently the subject of an investigation.

However, García categorically rejected the fact that agents of migration are involved in a terrorist network and, in dialogue with InfobaeHe stressed that "the expulsion of the Iranians will be done immediately when the justice will determine their freedom".

– Why Migrations did not stop the Iranians in Ezeiza with fake pbadports?

– Here, all the control rules have been respected so that the incident is solved. During the consultation with Interpol, it was determined that the pbadports had been stolen and the early warning system of the pbadengers determined that there was an inconsistency in the dates of income and in handing over the documents .

-So we do not understand why the migration managers let them pbad …

-Evaluate that there has been a human failure because all the control systems have worked. The problem was that the consultation chain of command was not respected. In other words, the inspector did not inform the supervisor and he could not inform the coordinator to take the decision to delay or detain the Iranians as would have been the case here.

– Do you think that the dismissal of civil servants will be enough to mitigate the responsibilities in migrations before this fact?

– We believe that they will be investigated and will be fired. For now, we see no greater responsibility than these officials.

– Is it possible that those officials who let the Iranians pbad are linked to terrorist groups?

– We do not doubt that they are not involved in any type of terrorist group. We believe that they were wrong and that they must pay for it. But we can not guarantee that they are part of a terrorist network. We do not know anything about it.

– What will the government do now?

– We should expect him to act and investigate justice. Let the investigation take its course.

– But what will happen if justice finally decides to release the Iranians?

– The Argentine government does not want these people to stay a minute longer in Argentina. If justice releases them automatically, we will execute the corresponding procedures to expel them. Have these people violated the Argentine laws, entered illegally and have a criminal case. They can not be in the country and we will proceed with their elimination as soon as justice considers that they can be free.