2023-04-27 13:13:00
He Mayor of Arica, Gerardo Espindola (PL), warned of the possible consequences that the state of emergency decreed by the Peruvian government might bring on the border it shares with Chile and other nations to control migration.
In interview with 24 hoursheld that “If today we are in a state of emergency, the situation might be even more complex, because we are going to find that people will not finally be able to enter (to Peru) and we are going to have a camp on the border. And that camp is not only going to be on the border line, but it is going to go towards our city.”
The community chief admitted to being concerned, since “We are going to have people sleeping in the squares and parks once more and Arica is going to turn into a camp, which we don’t want to happen.”
Espíndola mentioned the situation experienced in the pandemic when “6 thousand people were stranded in Arica, they were Peruvian people who might not enter Peru. Those people were sleeping on the streets, it was a pretty complicated emergency situation.”
“We are afraid that what happened later will happen, when Peru ends its quarantine, we had a strong blow from migrants entering our country and we had a negative occupation of public spaces in the streets, squares and parks, which were finally transformed into camps”, Indian.
Espíndola maintained that “we have to prevent this from happening, especially the generation of situations of hatred towards the migrant population, which today is not a population that is entering our country, but rather a population that wants to leave Chile and return to Venezuela. and he cannot do it because he does not have papers to enter Peru.
However, he refused to criticize the measure decreed by Peru, and affirmed that “they are one of the actions that every sovereign country is doing to protect its borders, seeking solutions or to mitigate this migratory crisis that is affecting them today, and that is It has manifested in a very violent way, especially in the last 11 days on the Chilean-Peruvian border of people who want to leave but cannot enter Peru.
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