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A massive march against irregular immigration held this Saturday in
Iquique,
in northern
Chile,
ended with violent incidents against foreigners who are stranded in the city waiting to regularize their situation.
With Chilean flags and posters that read
"No more illegal",
the around 5,000 attendees (according to police sources) expressed their rejection of the migratory wave that these days has the northern part of the country in crisis due to the collapse of some spaces public and uncontrolled immigration policy.
The Iquique column also met with protesters who arrived in the regional capital from
Colchane,
the border commune most affected by the crisis, as hundreds of people enter the city every day who are stranded in that town.
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"We want the government to get closer to the commune once and for all, converse with our communities and set clear policies and actions around providing us with security and also respecting our rights as Aymara," said the mayor of Colchane,
Javier García.
"Like migrants who enjoy international protection, indigenous peoples in Chile also enjoy protection of international rights," he added.
Xenophobia
The march, which passed through the center of the city, ended with the
burning of the tents that foreigners use to spend the night
in squares and beaches, which has been denounced as a xenophobic attack.
Most of the belongings belonged to
Venezuelans,
according to Reuters.
The
Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado,
responded to the criticism and said the government will continue to
strengthen border plan with more staff and more technical resources "to stop the passage of people wanting to
enter Chile clandestinely."
Likewise, he reiterated that he is going to resume the massive deportations of migrants, a policy that is currently paralyzed by the Justice and that has been highly criticized by international and human rights organizations.
To date, there are about
3,000 people who are stranded in Iquique,
most of them after having entered Chile through non-authorized border crossings and crossing the route to the coast.
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Last Friday, a large operation by the
Carabineros de Chile
evicted a camp of a hundred migrants who slept in Plaza Brasil, in the center of Iquique, a place where they settled months ago as a result of the migratory crisis.
According to the
Investigative Police (PDI) of Chile,
between January and July of this year 23,673 complaints were registered for entering the country through non-authorized steps, 40% of all 2020.
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