Gabriel Boric’s government has proposed a biometric registration program for irregular aliens this 2023. Photo: Jasmine Serras/La Repubblica/La Tercera/Cenital – Video: T13
President of Chile Gabriel BoricIt announced on Thursday that foreigners in an irregular situation, with pending arrest warrants, will be deported from the country within a maximum period. Five days. Police officers have already been ordered to curb crime rates and public insecurity in the country.
The order to this effect was given to the police officers on Thursday. Photo: @lmtroncoso/X
“Regarding aliens who are in an irregular situation and have not completed voluntary registration, even if there is no arrest warrant against them; An eviction order will be issued“said the Chilean president at a ceremony in which he presented a plan to strengthen territorial control operations.
As recalled, the Boric government proposed a biometric registration program for irregular foreigners this 2023, most of whom are from Venezuela. Until that process is complete, Only 127,000 people managed to complete their data. The rest must leave the South American country.
The Chilean opposition responded
Right-wing opposition parties threatened to launch a Political inquiry Minister of Home Affairs and Defense vs. Carolina DohaOnly if the evacuation of 12,000 irregular migrants is not completed by the end of the year.
It should be noted that since 2017, Chile has recorded a large increase in the arrival of foreigners from Venezuela. Thousands of them managed to cross the border through Bolivia or Peru or secretly.
Migrant dies trying to enter Chile
This Monday, November 27, Chilean police informed the press of the death of a 63-year-old man of Venezuelan origin, whose body was found about 2,000 kilometers away, near the northern city of Colzane, on the border between Chile and Bolivia. Capital.
According to the first report, the man’s death could have been due to natural causes, but the intervention of a third party has not been ruled out, as the wetlands where he was found are being used by ‘coyotes’ to enter the migrant under irregular conditions. From Bolivia to Chile.
With information from EFE.
