Authorities in Argentina have arrested seven Syrians who came into the country using false Greek passports.

The group, which included one minor, was taken into custody at a downtown Buenos Aires hotel on Friday, after landing at the city's Ezeiza International Airport the day before, La Nacion reported.

Countries in South and Central America have recently stopped several groups of Middle Easterners attempting to escape their war-torn countries with fake passports.

According to La Nation, the detainees said they made the trip because of the internal unrest and religious persecution they faced in Syria.

A Turkish citizen named Ibrahim Dehioglu has been arrested for helping the Syrians obtain fake passports and enter Latin America.

As previously reported, last month five Syrian men, who had paid smugglers to help them travel through Brazil, Argentina and Costa Rica, were detained in Honduras as they were trying to make their way to the United States.

In October, Brazil detained eight Iraqi nationals who were traveling with false Greek passports that they secured in Turkey.

These latest detained Syrians are suspected of being part of a criminal organization dedicated to human trafficking, as well as the falsification of documents.

The fact that Syrians have been able to get this close to the U.S. with fake passports has alarmed some U.S. lawmakers, who have become increasingly sensitive to Middle East migration due to the recent terrorist bombings in Paris and the ISIS-inspired shooting in San Bernardino, California.

Speaking on her radio show, Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore recently went so far as to suggest that shooting Syrians was the answer to ending their plight.

According to The New York Daily News, Fiore said, “I am not OK with Syrian refugees. I’m not OK with terrorists. I’m OK with putting them down, blacking them out, just put a piece of brass in their ocular cavity and end their miserable life. I’m good with that.”

Several Syrian families have just resettled in Texas and in Indiana. ABC News reports Texas has taken in more refugees than any other state in the last five years, a number which includes around 250 Syrians.