São Paulo airport has 291 immigrants detained in restricted area
Hundreds of immigrants, most of them from India, are currently detained in a restricted area at Guarulhos International Airport. The information was confirmed by the São Paulo Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, which called an emergency meeting for this Thursday (Jun. 13) with the Federal Police, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the GRU Airport concessionaire, and Brazil’s national drug regulator Anvisa.The restricted area is a section of the terminal where immigrants without visas or documents, and who have not officially entered the country, are held. This is where foreigners wait to either be granted refuge or repatriated to their country of origin.The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office has declared the situation a "new humanitarian crisis at the airport," noting that Guarulhos A...