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Through two detailed reports, the National Network of Migrant and Promising Organizations made visible the reality that hundreds of people of different nationalities are living on the Chacalluta border, seeking to leave the country for different reasons. Among the reasons, there is mainly the mistreatment received for years by the State administration for not being able to regularize their immigration status, obtain the required documentation after the submission of applications, denial of refugee applications or never having an expulsion order. executed.
The Network urgently requests a humanitarian corridor that allows the mobility of those who wish to leave the country, which to date has not had positive results.
The establishment of an airlift at the initiative of the Venezuelan government that began with a first flight in the early hours of this Sunday, May 7, is a positive measure: partial, but positive, says the Network.
The aforementioned flight covers only a part of the people who are stranded at the border, since there are people of other nationalities who also want to move by land and do not have that possibility, and should have it. Likewise, there are Venezuelans who, even wishing to leave Chile, for various reasons do not want to return to Venezuela.
“We are witnessing all the disturbances caused by the restrictive measures of migratory flows at the borders, both for entry and exit. On behalf of the Chilean authorities at the borders of Chacalluta and Colchane, people continue to be redirected and prevented from leaving due to the demands of administrative procedures. Many people are being sent to other cities, hundreds of kilometers away, to carry out these procedures, which is an obstacle considering that connectivity is almost non-existent and that in many cases there are large family groups on the move. How can we not have PDI offices at the border that have the capacity to facilitate and carry out the necessary procedures so that these people can leave the country?
«All these difficulties, far from promoting regularity in migration, what they do is encourage irregularity in the medium and long term. Not seeing the causes that caused the current irregularity and repeating the mistakes made in previous years only leads to generating more problems for the country and violating the rights of migrants,” they say in a statement.
