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The image of the migrants expelled from the country dressed in white overalls, and the announcement by the Government to leave out the vaccination against Covid-19 to foreigners in an irregular situation in the country and those with a tourist visa continues to ignite the spirits, and has Chancellor Andrés Allamand as the protagonist.
Juan Gabriel Valdés, Chilean ambassador in Washington, pointed to the expulsion of foreigners on the first deportation flight that left yesterday from Iquique to Venezuela and Colombia.
For the former ambassador, “the spectacle of people with white divers raising planes sent back to their country is not possible,” and he concluded by saying that the situation “is painful for the image and prestige of Chile at the international level.”
Regarding the shift in vaccination to the non-resident foreign population, Valdés pointed out that “a report cannot abruptly change the government’s policy in this matter”, alluding to the information on Peruvian television about the so-called “tourism of vaccines ”.
“I hope that the Government leaves inside the foreigners who are in an irregular situation, because they must be vaccinated,” he said on Radio Infinita.
But the Minister of Foreign Affairs defended his position, noting that it was necessary to give two strong signals: to stop the so-called “Covid tourism” that was beginning to take shape and “to imply that Chile has a migration policy that it will enforce.”
Faced with the issue of the humanitarian crisis in Colchane, Minister Allamand insisted that “one task is to deactivate criminal gangs operating throughout the region, which have mounted an operation of illegal human trafficking. Dismantling these gangs is a task that must be tackled collectively ”, he stressed, adding that the situation in Venezuela, which is” absolutely critical “and has generated a” regional emergency. “
And as for vaccination, the Chancellor explained that people who are irregular, due to the fact of initiating the processing of a temporary visa and the normalization of their situation, “are immediately qualified for the purposes of being vaccinated.”
However, Allamand was called into question, because this morning the Government took a new turn on vaccination and rectified the information provided yesterday by the Chancellor regarding the groups of migrants who would be left out of vaccination.
Although yesterday the minister of RR.EE. noted that “foreigners who are in the country in an irregular situation but who have not started the application procedures for a temporary or permanent visa will be excluded from vaccination against Covid-19,” Álvaro Bellolio, head of the Immigration Department, He argued that “migrants who are irregularly in Chile are Fonasa A, therefore they have access to vaccination,” which marks a clear difference from what the Government had communicated yesterday.
“There are organizations that are for uncontrolled migration”
However, from the Department of Immigration and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security of Chile, they added a new factor. Its director, Álvaro Bellolio, stated —in conversation with Radio DNA– that, in practice, “it is true that there are organizations and authorities that are for uncontrolled migration, because of open barriers”.
“Even a senator from the Broad Front said at the time that it did not matter how foreigners entered Chile, whether they entered clandestinely or not, what mattered to him was access to law,” criticized Bellolio.
“Every country in the world that proposes a safe, orderly and regular migration cannot endorse, ignore the clandestine entry and that there are foreigners who commit crimes, and for them there must be a response and there can be no impunity,” he declared.
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