Chile has increased deportations of migrants, often without reviewing their cases
Today they live, without papers, in a tent in Iquique on Chile’s northern coast. It is not what they hoped for. Ms Rodríguez and her husband help café-goers park their cars along the sea wall in exchange for coins. “If you stand still for a moment in Iquique, they humiliate you and call you a murderer, thief or drug-dealer,” says Ms Rodríguez. In September locals marched through the town centre and tossed migrants’ belongings, including toys and nappies, into a fire.
The official response to Venezuelan migrants has been “schizophrenic”, says Tamara Taraciuk Broner of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group. In 2019 Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s president, travelled to Cúcuta, a Colombian town near the border with Venezuela, to invite that country’s citizens to seek refuge in Chile.
. Chile’s Supreme Court says the expulsions deny migrants due process and the United Nations has denounced them. Colombia has been far more welcoming to Venezuelans, giving temporary protected status to nearly 2m.
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