According to the minister, the transformation means that the former National Directorate must become a national agency capable of comprehensively addressing the country's migration issues, with new operational capabilities, greater professionalization, and a stricter approach to irregular migration flows.
The National Migration Agency will have its own migration police, a project that the libertarian administration had been developing since 2024 and that had already been anticipated in decree 366/2025, which defined the Gendarmerie, Coast Guard, Airport Security Police (PSA), and Federal Police as “auxiliary migration police.” The objective is, in the medium term, to concentrate border surveillance and control tasks in a single specialized force.










