Abstract
The article analyzes the debate and the circumstances of sending to the National Congress in 1980, the Bill that was signed into Law 6.815,1980 (Alien Status). In the background of military dictatorship, in the full respect of cold war, the Condor Operation and the National Security Law, the text sent by General Jõao Figueiredo is intensely criticized by the opposition parliamentarians, intellectuals, trade unions and the mass media. In addition to presenting the main elements that guided the parliament debates and the most questioned aspects of the proposed Bill, the article analizes theorically the condition of the Foreigner as a threat, a legislative tradition dating back to the Empire, but that in the analyzed period, it has its own characteristics linked to the concepts of war and internal subversion. It aims to present information for policy makers and experts on the subject and allows the reader to reflect on the resilience on this speech (thirty-five years ago) in contemporary debates.
Alien Status; anthropology of policy; National Congress; criminalization of migration; national security
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Figura 1: Visita do General Figueiredo ao Paraguai e a Argentina, em abril e maio de 1980, respectivamente. Na foto da esquerda, um registro do seu encontro com o General Stroessner. Na direita, com o General Videla.