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From 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the Senate Chamber met to continue with the processing of the Migration Law, a project that has been in Congress since 2013 and that during his stay in it has made slow progress.
In fact, today only three articles were voted, which reflects how difficult it has been to speed up the stride on this issue, especially considering the high technical difficulty of the project.
One of the articles that was approved was 19, which takes charge of the reunification of migrant families that are in the country, and that generated debate since in the general vote it was established that “residents may request family reunification with their spouse or partner.”
This last word is the key, since in its vote in particular in the Government Commission, the term “cohabiting” was eliminated, replacing the phrase “with that person who maintains a relationship that, in accordance with the applicable law, produce effects equivalent to marriage ”.
Finally, the Chamber approved the article with this last wording, eliminating the word “cohabiting”.
The UDI senator, Luz Ebensperger, was thus in favor of eliminating that word from the bill.
For his part, Senator DC, Jorge Pizarro, pointed out that it is necessary to include the term of cohabitation to facilitate family reunification.
Another of the controversies of the day was experienced during the vote on article 27, discussing whether it was pertinent to maintain the wording emanating from the Internal Government Commission, which It would allow the Executive to request visas for migrants who come as tourists.
Here, the debate was installed since the administration on duty could refuse to deliver a visa using as a reference the behavior of a group of people from a certain country.
Senator Alejandro Navarro was against this measure, using the Colombian singer Shakira as an example.
“In other words, if a group of Argentine military men behave badly in Chile, a delegation that comes to study, are we going to deny all Argentines a visa?” That is because there is a group of criminals in Antofagasta Are we going to deny entry to all Colombians, including Shakira? “, he expressed.
Finally, article 22 was rejected, which sought to establish that the president (on duty) It must ensure that the “irregular entry” of foreigners is avoided.
In the government, meanwhile, they look closely at what is happening in Congress with the processing of this law, in fact, the undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, was exposing the position of the Executive.
Which has been very clear and critical with two specific indications: the one that establishes a transitory work visa and a 90-day regularization process since the law is published.
Interior Minister Víctor Pérez insisted that Those amendments, which would be voted on next week, must be rejected.
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