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Rodrigo Delgado speaks at a press point after the cabinet council this Monday at the Palacio de La Moneda. Photo: Luis Felipe Araya / Agency One.
The Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Rodrigo Delgado, confirmed that This Monday, the decree declaring a State of constitutional exception of Emergency in the provinces of Arica, Parinacota, Tamarugal and El Loa would be sent to the Comptroller General of the Republic for its decision.due to the migratory and delinquency crisis associated with the irregular entry of people at the borders of the northern zone.
“Our task today, during this day, is to send the signed decree for the decision of the Comptroller. The Comptroller obviously has a period of a couple of days, perhaps, to be right. And once that happens, the state of exception begins, ”the authority reported after the cabinet council this Monday in La Moneda.
Delgado explained that the measure will seek to complement the work carried out on the border between the police and the Armed Forces by the previous Decree 265, which focuses on drug and human trafficking.
“This strengthening will be able to increase the capacity at the border to be able to give support to the police to use the redirection tool and also strengthen the work in the provinces to patrol the routes and highways and strengthen the checkpoints” , exposed.
Regarding the road blockades of truckers that “the word has been respected today, at about 11 in the morning onwards, the unblockings began in Antofagasta such as Tarapacá, in Coquimbo and O’Higgins. It has been an intense day of work, but it leaves concrete results that are already manifesting themselves”.
consulted for criticism of Mayor of Colchane, Javier García, who accused the government of improvising in the implementation of the new immigration regulationsDelgado said that he has spoken about the process with the communal authority.
“In this you always have to be part of the solution, not permanently part of the problem. I would invite, not only the mayor of Colchane, but all the mayors to join”commented.
“It’s hard to be everywhere, I don’t have the ability to unfold,” he said.