Chile will strengthen border control in the country’s Nordic desert in order to reduce the flow of irregular immigrants as announced this Wednesday by President Gabriel Boric. The measure comes weeks after hundreds of soldiers deployed to the region due to the migration crisis.
The president assured, in a speech in Colchane, on the border with Bolivia, that a priority of his government is to promote dialogue with La Paz and Caracas so that they receive people who are expelledone of the obstacles that, according to him, hinders the deportation of those who commit crimes.
“Our priority is protect the border to ensure regular migrationsafe and orderly and that also converses with the needs of the country,” he told the press.
In this sense, he pointed out that seek to “revert in this way the prolonged absence of the State in this area, with more resources and better tools“, added Boric, who resumed a tour of the north of the country on Wednesday, the area most affected by the explosive increase in irregular immigration in recent years.
In addition, the ruler assured that there will be improvements to the Colchane border complexin the Tarapacá region, with greater amenities for your employeesas well as new thermal cameras and a satellite communication system “to double the capacity of remote detection and monitor currently uncontrolled areas”.
Improvements will spread to others six observation points in the Antofagasta regionsas well as Arica, in the far north of the country where there is also a border with Peru.
Since his tenure began, the leftist leader hardened his speech against irregular migration and said that the measures also seek to combat criminal groups human trafficking, drug and arms trafficking.
A few days ago, the head of the local migration service said that expelling a foreign citizen could cost more than $3,000 (2.7 million pesos), but the president said that it was not just a problem of resources.
“It’s a problem that airspace is not opened, for example in Venezuela. The administrative procedures to carry out removal procedures are very cumbersome“he said, insisting that his government will launch an “intense” diplomatic activity with Bolivia and Venezuela so that they receive deported citizens.
Source: Ambito
