The head of the caucus of senators of the National Renewal (RN), Paulina Nunez, summoned the government in matters of expulsion of migrants. The legislator accused that the Executive “has not done anything” and affirmed that the majority of deportations carried out by the current administration were processed in the previous government.
“In practice, this government has done nothing in terms of expulsions. The Director of Migration speaks of 316 expulsions, but the vast majority were processed in the government of the President (Sebastian) Pinera and only 88 correspond to April, which is when he had already taken office,” said the senator, emmol.
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“Of those 88, 86 are judicial – that is, ordered by a court, not by the Executive – and the remaining two were managed by the citizens themselves. That is, expulsions processed by this government: they are zero,” added Núñez.
Likewise, he pointed out that in the Executive “they do not believe in expulsion as an effective tool to control illegal immigration.”
“When there are approximately 20,000 pending expulsions, doing nothing is irresponsible and contemptuous of those who are faced with the migration crisis in different ways,” added the parliamentarian.
“It is urgent that the government show as soon as possible what its definition and strategy is to face this crisis and specifically, I insist, what it will do with the income in a clandestine and irregular manner,” he concluded.
Núñez’s statements come after the director of the National Migration Service, Louis Thayerindicated that “the expulsion processes have not stopped” since President Gabriel Boric took office.
“We continue to prioritize judicial and administrative expulsions in which people have committed crimes and have a criminal record. In that sense, we will not make changes in criteria,” he told The Mercury of Antofagasta.
