"You do not have to run your order"

The vice-president of Together for Change, Michelangelo Pichetto, said today that "we must not comply" with what a UN body urged the government to repeal a decree amending the law on migration in 2017.

The national senator today rejected the decision of the Committee for the Protection of Rights of Migrant Workers, under the auspices of the United Nations, which last Friday asked the government "to take immediate steps to repeal" the decree. of 2017 to toughen the policy Immigration closes the doors to people with criminal records and speeds up deportation procedures.

"Why are they not asking the United States and other major countries to take care of their citizens, why are we forced to live with criminals who have committed serious crimes, including drug trafficking? "Why should this country be sensitive to such requests when national legislation needs to be enforced?" Asked the Peronist referent.

In a dialogue with CNN Radio, the representative of Río Negro in the upper chamber said that "if the person comes looking for work, a horizon, a project of life in Argentina, welcome." But if these people come and commit very serious crimes, so we must leave them, not expel them and these international organizations seem to claim … ".

"It seems to me that it is not necessary to comply, apart from the fact that it belongs to the Community of Nations.I do not agree," said the partner from the formula of President Mauricio Macri.

In this sense, he insisted on his opposition to "foreigners who break the pact of coexistence.These people must leave, with their children, with their families," said the vice-president of Together for Change.

The UN Committee has also asked the government to review all cases of evictions since the promulgation of the decree in January 2017 and cases pending resolution in order to "guarantee the family unit".

The rapporteur of the Committee for Argentina, María Landázuri, spoke about the case of a Peruvian woman, mother of three Argentine children aged 14, 5 and 2 years, who was deported for her criminal record in February last and separated from his children. Media broadcast of the case, September 2, was allowed to return to the country. The woman had been arrested in 2011 as a mule belonging to a gang of drug traffickers and had been sentenced to four years in prison.

In addition, the Committee "is said to be concerned about the situations of violence and harbadment of the police suffered by street vendors from Senegal and Haiti, the LGBTIQ collective and the workers of the street. ;textile industry". According to UN figures, 4.5% of the 44 million inhabitants of Argentina are immigrants.