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This Thursday, Foreign Minister Andrés Allamand warned that Chile faces “A complex situation” due to the increase in income to the country through non-authorized steps and detailed a series of measures to face this “Migratory wave”.
After meeting with former Foreign Ministers in La Moneda, within the framework of a new anniversary of the Hague ruling, Allamand was consulted about the vote on the Migration Law that took place yesterday in the Senate, where the so-called “tourist visa was rejected. labor ”promoted by the opposition.
“We care that there is no provision for what is called the call effect”, he said, and argued that this indication called for “the clandestine entry” of foreigners.
“I have warned that we face a complex situation”, Allamand assured, regarding the scenario that the country is experiencing. “This year, according to the Foreign Ministry’s accounting, there are more than eight thousand Venezuelans who have entered or who are today in an irregular situation, detailed the authority.
In this sense, he argued that “You have to be able to control this migratory wave with various measures”, and mentioned among these, “effective” legislation, “effective border control” and strengthening of cooperation and coordination work with Peru and Bolivia.
“From the Foreign Ministry we are carrying out coordination tasks to control the borders and fundamentally to dismantle the organized gangs that are those that promote clandestine entry into our country”, said the minister.
From the Tarapacá Region, the Undersecretary of the Interior Juan Francisco Galli, also assured that there is an increase in the flow of migrants through non-authorized crossings, mainly of Venezuelan citizens, which has also been determined by the closing of borders as a result of the pandemic.
Galli also called “Attack the causes for which foreign citizens have been forced to risk their lives and physical integrity by any means to our country”.
“I have been insistent in putting the focus on the economic and social issues and on the serious violations of human rights in Venezuela that have not allowed citizens of that country to seek opportunities in their own country,” he said.
Regarding the possibility of the military controlling the borders, the undersecretary replied: “I wouldn’t rule anything out early. We have to see if we have identified the main routes, the main vulnerabilities and take the measures to mitigate those vulnerabilities “.
