2024-04-17 03:26:51
One of those involved in the crime of the Carabineros lieutenant had an order to leave the country since 2020, a precedent that revived an old request to the Constitutional Court to prevent the expulsion of foreigners.
One of the Venezuelan migrants involved in the crime of the Carabineros lieutenant, Emmanuel Sanchezhad one order in force since 2020 to be removed from the country, a precedent that once again called into question the policy of expulsion of foreigners in Chile.
Is about Julio César González Vargas, who ended up dead after the shooting in the Quinta Normal commune. The foreign criminal entered Chile on September 16, 2020 through an unauthorized crossing in the province of Tamarugal, Tarapacá Region.
This situation was reported to the Public Ministry on October 6 of that year, to begin the expulsion process of the migrant from Venezuela.
After this, the administrative resolution decreed that Julio César González should be expelled from the country “as long as there are no pending causes” against him, and if there were, the order had to be carried out after the respective compliance.
However, this procedure was not carried out, since González was one of the five people involved in the confrontation that ended with the death of Carabineros lieutenant Emmanuel Sánchez in Quinta Normal.
Why was the expulsion order not executed?
Under this context, the regional delegate of Tarapacá, Daniel Quinterosreferred to the expulsion decree that the downed Venezuelan migrant remained in force.
“It is information that is being reviewed, indeed there are antecedents that point in the line that is indicated (…) These are antecedents that we have to confirm,” he explained regarding the document.
Continuing along this line, the authority maintained that they will review the information in order to “know what the specific situation of this person is, but could be within the universe of all that accumulation of pending expulsions that previous administrations did not execute.”
Due to the above, Quinteros assured that work has been done to strengthen administrative expulsions and thatThe Executive placed great urgency on the bill that reestablishes criminal expulsions for individuals sentenced to less than five years.
Monsalve points to little collaboration from Venezuela
For his part, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, When asked about the current expulsion order that was not executed in this case, he said: “What has gone wrong? The country from 2018 to date It expels on average 300, 350 people per year. “That is the capacity of expulsion as a country.”
“Evidently, because the main foreign population that has entered Chile irregularly is of Venezuelan nationality and because in order to cross Venezuelan citizens to Venezuela, Coordination with the Venezuelan government is necessarily required, otherwise it is not possible“He added regarding the little collaboration of the Government of Venezuela.
Along these lines, Monsalve explained that to carry out the expulsion to Venezuela, the authorization of the entry of airplanes into the airspace and corroboration of the identities of people that is going to be expelled by the Venezuelan consulate in Chile.
The requirement that Boric signed when he was a deputy to avoid the expulsion of foreigners
In December 2020, deputy Gabriel Boric turned to the constitutional Court together with 42 parliamentarians with the aim of prevent the promulgation of 14 articles of the Migration Law presented by the Government of Sebastián Piñera.
Among these items was the redirection of migrantswhich established that a person who is entering Chile through an irregular passage be redirected to their point of origin.
Following the request of deputies from the Frente Amplio, the Socialist Party and the Communist Party, the Constitutional Court (TC) declared six articles of the new Migration Law unconstitutional.
One of the articles that the TC declared unconstitutional was the norm that sought to regulate the measure of expulsion of a migrant from the country. According to what the initiative stated, “once the resolution ordering the expulsion is final and enforceablethe affected person may be subjected to restrictions and deprivation of liberty for a period that cannot exceed seventy-two hours.“.
When the then presidential candidate Gabriel Boric was consulted about this decision, he said he did not remember having signed the requirement.