A woman from Kazakhstan has been stranded in Ezeiza for a week because they won't let her enter the country.
The reasons that hold her back are strange.
Apparently, Migrations considers that she is a "false tourist" because they found 300 pesos in her possession.
And for the authorities that amount is not enough to justify a supposed tourist visit.
The other version of this story is that Aigul Riskaliyeva came to see her Argentine grandson who was born in October and that Migrations
is illegally holding her
with false information.
The key here is those 300 pesos
.
But before going there, we must tell some things that happened before.
When the case began, Migrations discovered that
the relatives he came to see were in Argentina illegally
.
That set off an alarm.
His visa also blocked his entry.
There is an old treaty that
limits the visa of inhabitants of countries that were part of the former Soviet Union to one month
: Aigul's return ticket was for April.
That also aggravated the lady's situation.
Cristian Rubilar, Aigul's defense lawyer, told
Clarín
that he was already able to regularize the situation of his client's family in Argentina and that she advanced her return ticket to the first days of February.
With these two obstacles resolved, the Kazakh woman should have no problem entering the country.
However, Migrations alleged that she could not justify her being a tourist with only 300 pesos in her possession.
It is at this point where the cause becomes diffuse.
Aigul has been living in the pre-embarkation area for a week.
Rubilar assures that this information
is a lie
: "Immigration makes a mistake in not letting her pass when she insists that the lady has 300 pesos when in reality she has three thousand dollars. Immigration's irrational objections have already been corrected and they still do not let her enter. ".
The lawyer infers that there is a policy in Immigration against Russian women or women from former Soviet republics.
"It seems very serious to me that systematically during the last year all the women who were detained were single women. In the habeas corpus of the Russian pregnant women, prosecutor Cecilia Incardona interrogated Immigration agents and they confessed that they were arrested for being women, for being pregnant and for being alone. I have a lot of Russian clients who enter and leave the country and nothing is done to them because they are men.
Aigul now lives in the Ezeiza pre-boarding area.
According to his lawyer, he sleeps on the floor and during the first two days they did not give him anything to eat or drink.
Then they allowed his relatives to bring him food.
"They give it to Immigration and they then give it to them. But they can't go see her.
That's inhumane
. In Argentina, a person convicted of homicide has the right to weekly family visits and here we have a grandmother who did nothing and who did not They allow him to see his grandson not even within the airport itself," he claimed.
Aigul's daughter and son-in-law already have their immigration status regularized in Argentina.
Her lawyer says that they bought a house in Ezeiza and that they would be renovating it to live there.
He also claims that she is in a situation of slavery.
She "They withheld her passport. It's illegal, it can't be done. Also, since she doesn't have it, she can't buy anything to eat even if she has the dollars."
He also says that the figure of "false tourist" is unconstitutional and that it criminalizes the inhabitants.
"It does not exist legally. It is an internal memo from Migrations, which does not have the powers to legislate. What they are doing is totally unconstitutional and illegal."