A friend being deported from US to Argentina. What's going to happen to her?

Your friend has violated immigration laws and/or visa regulations. If ICE arrested her, she's in immigration detention (jail) until they verify her Argentinian citizenship and get a planeload to Argentina (& vicinity if other stops en route). She's going home, doubtless has family & friends, classmates, etc, there, so she will be fine reunited with them in her own country. Argentina is fairly wealthy country, and she can get a job back home, etc, resume her life (and life in Argentina is so nice that there are a lot of expats from US, Canada, Europe, etc, living there - legally!). Buenos Aires is a very cosmopolitan, European-like city.

Argentina does not penalize its citizens for violating other countries' laws. It does, however, treat foreigners who violate their immigration laws and/or visa regulations much more harshly than the US does. Did you know the US spends about 4 times as much per day holding illegal aliens in detention centers than it does for criminals in jail? Detention centers provide such luxurious food & facilities to its prisoners that those facilities are better than mid-range hotels in many countries. Be assured your friend is quite comfortable and will be fine when she gets back home.

Whether or not your friend was guilty of other crimes does not matter. If she is here illegally, she is subject to deportation. It's like the police coming to remove someone who is trespassing. If you don't have a legal right to be here, then you don't have a legal right to be here.

After a judge orders your friend to be deported, she will be put on a plane to Buenos Aires. Even if your friend has been in the US for years, she almost certainly has extended relatives such as grandparents, aunts and uncles and old family friends back in her home country who can meet her at the airport and help her re-adjust. Argentina isn't some poverty-stricken Third World country. It is a beautiful, stable country with a fairly high standard of living. Argentina used to qualify for the VWP, but not anymore because of overstayers like your friend. Of course you'll miss her very much, but do not feel sorry for her. She's going to reconnect with her native country, which is one of the nicest places to live in South America. Unfortunately, she won't be able to come back to the US for a visit until the 10-year bar on re-entry is over, but you could save up money to visit her.

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Your friend will not be arrested in Argentina. If she's a citizen there, she'll be fine in that respect. But at the very least she would be banned from applying to come to the US legally for 10 years, if not forever. As for how she'll adjust, it depends on whether she has family there. Some people don't know that, but being deported, if there's no support network or government help, literally means living on the street. I hope this does not happen to your friend.

She won't go to jail in Argentina, she will be able to do whatever she wants there.

Umm...if you are in the country illegally you should get deported. It isn't a punishment, punishment is going to jail. It is an administrative action. You know those little visas they stamp in the passports? They have dates on them for a reason. When the customs officer stamps you in, it doesn't say "6 months non immigrant, only suggested, if you change your mind and decide to ignore it no biggie."

She'll simply be sent to Argentina, where if she has a clean record she can resume life as usual. However, she can't take anything much with her, and if she is accused of crimes in Argentina then she can be arrested.

If your friend actually gets deported, she's done a lot more than just enter illegally. I can promise you that.

That's good news, legal process is working. She will be fine down there.