With hundreds stranded in Sao Paulo, India to broach topic with Brazil Minister Foreign Minister
- August 26, 2024
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With hundreds stranded in Sao Paulo, India to broach topic with Brazil Minister Foreign Minister
Subject: IR
Sec: Places in news
Context:
The plight of hundreds of men and women, many of them Indian, who are stranded at an airport in Sao Paulo as they are suspected to be illegal immigrants, maybe discussed during meetings with Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira.
More on News:
- Vieira is in New Delhi to hold the 9th India-Brazil Joint Commission meeting with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, and they will also discuss the agenda for the upcoming G-20 summit in Rio De Janeiro on November 18 and 19, 2024.
- The plight of hundreds of men and women, many of them Indian, who are stranded at an airport in Sao Paulo as they are suspected to be illegal immigrants, maybe discussed during meetings with Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira.
- With Brazil holding the G-20 Presidency this year, the Ministers will also discuss how the two countries as [part of the] Troika can take forth key G-20 outcomes from the Indian Presidency last year.
- Brazil exports crude oil and cooperates with India on biofuels.
- Although India is a key member of the “Troika” of Brazil, India and South Africa (hosts of 2023, 2024 and 2025 respectively).
- India and Brazil are also both members of the BRICS, IBSA and BASIC groupings as well as part of the G-4 initiative for UN reform and the Ministers are likely to speak about the upcoming UN “Summit of the Future” on September 22-23, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazil President Lula da Silva are expected to attend.
Brazil’s new regulations:
- To crackdown on illegal immigration routes, and the issue of more than 660 people, including more than 100 Indians being held in Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos Airport for several weeks, are not on the formal agenda, officials expect that they will be raised. “We have seen reports of people stranded who ask to be admitted [to Brazil] as refugees,” while adding that no information has been shared with New Delhi so far due to privacy reasons, and to protect those requesting asylum.
- On August 22, Brazil’s Justice Ministry also announced it would impose new restrictions on travellers from “certain Asian countries” who transit through its airports beginning August 26, and will not allow them to stay on in Brazil.
- The measure is expected to target Indians, Chinese, Nepalis and Vietnamese citizens in particular, who are believed to be part of a growing trend of illegal immigrants landing and requesting asylum, and then taking the land route from Brazil to the Mexican border with the United States in order to cross over to the U.S. and Canada.
- According the U.S. Justice department, the number of such “asylum applications” have increased 61 times between 2013 and 2023, growing from 69 to 4,239, and they were joining hands with other countries in North and South America to restrict the illegal immigration route.
- Evidence suggests that those migrants, in their majority, are making use of the known – and extremely dangerous – route that goes from Sao Paulo to the western state of Acre, so they can access Peru and go toward Central America and then, finally, reach the U.S. from its southern border.