It will allow police and military patrols, establish observation posts; deploy unmanned aircraft, drones and helicopters for surveillance and transfer, in addition to the use of night vision and thermal cameras supported by modern satellite communication equipment.
“Yes to legal migration, yes to those who have been telling the truth to our borders. No to illegal immigration, not to those who enter by cheating or not telling the truth, using falsified documents, going through unauthorized steps,” said Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, after announcing the start of the military deployment in Santiago.
The state of exception is one of the measures that the government agreed with the truckers’ unions to lift the blockades they carried out over the weekend in northern and central regions of Chile in protest at the death of a colleague in an incident with foreigners in in the midst of a migration crisis in that area that has also provoked protests from local residents.
The Andean town of Colchane, on the border with Bolivia, is the most used passage for undocumented immigrants to enter Chile and where 23 migrants have died in the last year. Those who manage to reach Chilean cities settled in tents or in squares or walk adrift asking for help.
Shelters installed in Colchane by the government for migrants have been collapsed, while the border complex was closed after the entry into force of a new migration law that allows irregular migrants to be ‘redirected’ to the border. “There have already been more than 100 renewals and we are going to continue with it,” said Piñera.
Source: Ambito
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