The National Migration Service (Sernamig) issued a statement this Thursday afternoon regarding the statements of the Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches, in the Citizen Security Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. In them, held yesterday, he accused that in the second government of Sebastian Pinera, a plane with expelled foreigners returned to Chile with all the passengers. Siches clarified that this information was incorrect.
In the statement, Sernamig reiterated what was reported by The counter in the sense that in March of this year the Venezuelan government did not authorize the landing of 53 immigrants expelled by the Piñera government, after being convicted by Chilean courts. For that reason, the PDI only shipped Colombian citizens.
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“By virtue of this notification, the PDI embarked the Colombian citizens, while all Venezuelan citizens were entrusted to the Gendarmerie for re-entry to the respective prisons,” the document adds.
Next, the Sernamig points to the surrogate director of the previous director of the Service, Carmen Gloria Danerifor the transfer of erroneous information.
“He reported at a meeting (held on March 25) at the Ministry of the Interior that Venezuelan citizens had embarked and traveled to Venezuela, not having been admitted to that country and returning to Chile,” the statement said.
“This erroneous information was transmitted by the Minister of the Interior and Public Security to the Citizen Security Commission of the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of Chile,” he adds.
Lastly, the text indicates that “because of these facts, during the present day the new Director of the Migration Service, Luis Eduardo Thayer, assumed office on April 2, has requested the opening of a summary investigation to determine possible responsibilities” .
Siche’s Declaration
In the Commission of the Lower House, the Minister of the Interior said that “we identified that one of the planes of the expulsions that were made to Venezuela, returned with the same people, and we had no idea. With all the passengers expelled!” .
“I want to point out now that if we did that, it would be the cover of The second The same day. My congratulations to the previous government because it had the capacity to cover this with earth, because it is something very serious, with the amount of resources,” he added.
Subsequently, the former Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado, discarded the statements of the Secretary of State and asked her to “transparent” the background. In this regard, the former president of the Medical Association (Colmed) acknowledged that the information was incorrect and apologized to Delgado.
