The news, dry dry, is this: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, for his friends only Lulanew president of Brazil after the parenthesis of Jair Bolsonarohas decided to tighten the rules for the entry of migrants. From now on, anyone arriving from a number of countries considered at risk will have to submit a formal visa request in case of even a short stay on the national territory. Also demonstrating that they are suffering political persecution or violence in their country of origin.
“So what?”, you will say. The matter is tasty not so much for the fact itself, but for the image that Italy – or rather its media – have always given of this worker president. The bad and ugly regulator of immigration this time is not Donald Trump, Matteo Salvini or Jair Bolsonaro. But the leader of the Workers’ Party.
Listening to the speech of the ministry of Justice Brazilian seems to hear a “right-wing populist”, as the newspapers call those who propose a limit on the entry of foreigners. Brazil, the ministry says, is an integral part of the route preferred “by criminal organizations that practice migrant trafficking and human trafficking”. To break the traffic, just as Italy has done to say with the Arab countries, Tunisia and Libya first and foremost, the best way is to make it more difficult to stay on national soil. And since in Brazil Arrivals are concentrated mainly in the country’s largest airport, in Guarulhos, near Sao Paulo, and it is precisely there that Lula has decided to strike.
According to Agi, in fact, the federal police has reported an “exponential increase” in Asian passengers who should only be making a stopover at the airport and who, instead of leaving for their final destination (often other South American countries), remain there in the hope of being able to enter Brazil. The result: a mass of people camping in the transit areas of the airport, obviously in inhumane conditions. “Criminal organizations direct them to ask for asylum to enter Brazilian territory,” explains the Federal Police. Once they have obtained the green light, they then try to reach Colombia, Panama and finally the United States or Canada.
Hence Lula’s idea of forcing passengers to apply for a visa even for a short stopover on Brazilian soil. Not even Italy has such strict rules.
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