The Government decided to withdraw from the Comptroller General of the Republic the regulations of the new Migration Law, which had entered on December 6, 2021.
As reported Third, the decision was based on the fact that the controlling entity made observations to the Executive, which could have ended up declaring the document illegal.
The incident occurs in the midst of the crisis in the north, where in recent days there have been violent acts and citizen demonstrations against crime and uncontrolled irregular migration.
It should be remembered that the initiative took several years to be processed in Congress, after sectors of the opposition described the norm for migrants as “discriminatory”.
The idea in La Moneda was to be able to start applying the new law before March 11, the date on which President Sebastián Piñera ends his term.
In detail, according to the morning paper, the Comptroller General of the Republic, Jorge Bermúdez, received three documents with observations on the regulations. The first of them brings together the Jesuit Service for Migrants, the Legal Clinic of the Diego Portales University and the Legal Clinic of the Alberto Hurtado University. They requested to declare the unconstitutionality and illegality of articles related to the control of foreign persons who enter or leave the national territory and that indicate that the Executive intends to limit more extensively than the legislator, the exercise of a right enshrined in the Law, causing lack of protection for the family.
The second document is signed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the National Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees( UNHCR), and the Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). And it points to “the protection of the human rights of people in the context of human mobility”, which seek to “promote and protect the effective enjoyment of all civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights for all”, essentially by the people in the context of human mobility, migrants, refugees, stateless persons, children and adolescents.
The third document is from the National Network of Migrant and Pro-migrant Organizations, and considers the illegality of another article, accusing a possible deprivation of procedural guarantees and personal liberty.
