The Collective Corporation Without Borders and the National Coordinator of Immigrants Chile, articulated in the campaign “For a Childhood with Rights Without Borders”, requested the government of the President Gabriel Boric the migratory regularization of children who entered the country through unauthorized steps.
Specifically, both organizations presented this Thursday a collective petition to the Undersecretary of the Interior, in charge of Manuel Monsalve, for the migratory regularization of about 90 children and adolescents (NNA) who entered Chile through unauthorized steps. These are added to the 240 petitions delivered last January to the previous government, thus representing more than 330 children.
“The requests, addressed to the Undersecretary of the Interior, are based on the power that said authority has to resolve the migratory regularization of each one of the children and adolescents,” the organizations said in a statement.
“In recent times, in Chile there has been an increase in the income flow of families with children through unauthorized passageways, who are exposed to various human rights violations, such as the unfortunate case of the death of two foreign infants, one of They died last weekend,” they added.
The campaign “For a Child with Rights Without Borders” has been running since March 2021 and seeks to promote the protection of the rights of children and adolescents who are in a situation of irregular entry.
As part of the Campaign, direct work was carried out with more than a thousand migrant families, both in terms of legal guidance and health and education rights; and a report was prepared that shows the various violations they experience. The document was delivered to Undersecretary Monsalve, along with the request for regularization for all these NNA.
“The situation of children and adolescents in an irregular migratory situation deserves the urgent and humanitarian attention of the new government, and is legally based on the framework of International Law, recognized and protected by the current Constitution and other national legal and administrative provisions, which recognize the special protection that should be given to children in a situation of migration”, they mentioned.
