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In this article we intend to think about the expulsion of communists during the Brazilian New State (1937-1945), the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Hundreds of foreigners were arrested and forced to leave Brazil under the charge of “harmfulness”, a generic expression that allowed arbitrariness. The juridical discourse legitimated intolerance when ratified that the foreigner was a “danger” to the nation. Communism was viewed as an “exotic” idea, an expression of evil. However, Second World War made it difficult to expel communists. The solution adopted was to “eliminate” these undesirable ones, taking them to distant regions or keeping them arrested in subhuman conditions.