In 2021, Tarapacá Region in northern Chile saw an unprecedented movement of foreign migrants into its territory. The Altiplano town of Colchane along the border with Bolivia has been the irregular point of entry of an estimate of 18,000 Venezuelan migrants and about 3,000 Bolivian migrants up to September.
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| - La crisis migratoria en Norte de Chile es una situación humanitaria crítica que se inició en 2020, agudizándose el 2021. Los migrantes son principalmente ciudadanos venezolanos y bolivianos que han atravesado las fronteras de forma irregular. (es)
- In 2021, Tarapacá Region in northern Chile saw an unprecedented movement of foreign migrants into its territory. The Altiplano town of Colchane along the border with Bolivia has been the irregular point of entry of an estimate of 18,000 Venezuelan migrants and about 3,000 Bolivian migrants up to September. (en)
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| - La crisis migratoria en Norte de Chile es una situación humanitaria crítica que se inició en 2020, agudizándose el 2021. Los migrantes son principalmente ciudadanos venezolanos y bolivianos que han atravesado las fronteras de forma irregular. (es)
- In 2021, Tarapacá Region in northern Chile saw an unprecedented movement of foreign migrants into its territory. The Altiplano town of Colchane along the border with Bolivia has been the irregular point of entry of an estimate of 18,000 Venezuelan migrants and about 3,000 Bolivian migrants up to September. The border crossed by most migrants is arid, cold and lies at 3,600 meters above sea level. This route is chose since the more direct, and less harsh route across the Chile–Peru border is better guarded. Migrants are aided in the crossing by human smugglers. By February 2021 the cost for a family to be crossed into Chile was between 200 and US$500. Migrants have been accused by the alcalde of Colchane and local residents of acting violently by forcing themselves into inhabited houses of Colchane, engaging in theft and occupying public spaces. Reportedly by February 2021 1,600 migrants had arrived to the commune of Colchane in a brief time. Of these migrants, 400 Venezuelans were sent to Iquique to comply with mandatory COVID-19 quarantine. According to data provided by the by July 2021 the number of immigrants entering Chile through clandestine border crossings had exceeded those that did so in 2020 by 7,000, reaching a total of 23,673 people in 2021 up to July. As of September there are testimonies of the Chilean military guarding the frontier still being widely unable to control the influx of migrants. An estimate put the number of Venezuelans the crossed into Chile through Colchane in 2021 at 50,0000. Chilean police moved on September 24 to oust migrants, including families, that had occupied Iquique's Plaza Brasil. With regards to the ousting of migrants from Plaza Brasil the national government representative for Tarapacá Region commented that it was an issue of the location having become a focii of "crime such as robbery, prostitution, small-scale drug traffic" with delinquents hiding among the people occupying the square. On September 25 residents of Iquique organised a protest against the immigrants. During the protests an incident occurred in which a group of protesters sat the belongings of migrants afire. Chilean Public Ministry ordered an investigation to identify and prosecute the responsibles for the arson. Days after the events the ambvassador of Venezuela to Chile Arévalo Méndez travelled to Iquique to offer migrants free flight tickets to Venezuela as part of the Back to homeland plan. Venezuelan migrants largely rejected the offer. The Governor of Tarapacá José Miguel Carvajal accused President Sebastián Piñera of having abandoned his duties with regards to the migrant crisis. The Government of Chile pushed back the allegations claiming the number of migrants entering Chile in 2021 was as of September "about 25 thousand", only 10% of the number registered for 2017, the year prior to Piñera assuming office. (en)
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