14 pregnant Russian women arrived in Argentina on a single flight

A few hours after the Court ordered the provisional admission of six russian pregnant who were detained in Ezeizaan Ethiopian Airlines flight arrived on Friday evening with 83 Russian passengers, including 14 other women who are expecting a child.

On Thursday, a group of pregnant Russian women were arrested at Ezeiza airport because they did not have sufficient documents to prove their presence as tourists. They are between 25 and 35 years old and it is suspected that they came to the country to escape the war between Russia and Ukraine. Moreover, they entered without money or a return ticket.

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The federal judgel Luis Armella allowed the temporary entry into the country of four of the pregnant Russian women who appealed habeas corpus after being detained at the airport. Sources of migrations They informed that although the decision of Justice refers to four, all will be able to enter the country. In principle, it will be a “provisional landing” and they will have to continue the corresponding administrative procedures.

This Friday evening, a situation with similar characteristics arose, but it is the subject of a complete analysis by the Migration domain. At 10 p.m., an Ethiopian airline flight from Russia arrived at Ezeiza airport, and an alert was again generated about the phenomenon.

In the plane which arrived this Friday evening, they traveled 83 Russian passengers of different sexes and ages, but among them were 14 pregnant women. For this reason, the procedure to analyze whether they have documents proving their entry into the country as tourists has been launched.

A few weeks ago, the English newspaper The Guardian highlighted the trend of “birth tourism” following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the sanctions to which the citizens of the aggressor country are subjected. In this context, Argentina has become one of the main destinations due to the ease of travel since no visa is required and the possibility of having a second nationality.

In 2022, 10,500 pregnant Russian women entered Argentina, including 5,800 in the past three months, the National Directorate of Migration reported. In recent days, the situation has again resonated since some women have been detained in Ezeiza. After being granted provisional admission, Armella said it was decided “in view of the advanced state of pregnancy and for humanitarian reasons”.

He also said that “what Migrations did was correct since to enter to settle in the country, it is necessary to do the corresponding procedures and not to declare the entry as a tourist”. And it is that the women who had not been admitted to enter the country, were retained within the framework of the administrative procedure aimed at solving the suspected cases of “false tourist”. Beyond the fact that this is part of the usual operation, the prosecution considered that denying them access would be a case of discrimination.

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The National Director of Migrations, Florence Carignano, explained that the Russian women arrived in the country alone and all “at the 33rd or 34th week of pregnancy”. Consulted, they declared that they would do tourism but “when we see that they do not have a return ticket, that they do not know how to explain where they are going to do tourism, something that is rare for an enclosure 34 weeks”. wife, you’re starting to suspect that they’re not coming for tourism,” he continued.

Although the official clarified that “it is not a crime” to have a child in the country, people who have a nationality that is not part of Mercosur must “go to the consulate and obtain a visa and explain the reasons”, that is to say procedures that the women detained for several hours at the airport had not done.

The boom in the arrival of pregnant Russian women is also worrying given that it comes amid an investigation opened last December. Justice is investigating an agency for granting 70 permanent residences to Russian citizens.

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