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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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