The Government of Colombia proposes to regularize about a million undocumented Venezuelan migrants who are encircled in their median territory with a temporary status of protection with a vigil of 10 years. The project ratifies the policy of migration and flexibility that the country has maintained between wind and sea, with a roadmap to integrate the Venezuelan families that have reached the length and breadth of their territory in the last few years. También was also summoned to an entrance gate during the offer of services from the State, in anticipation of the start of the massive evacuation that will take place in the mid-February close of the population in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic.
“We have made public the decision of our country to create a temporary protection statute in Colombia, which allows us to carry out a process of regularization of our migrants who are in our country”, declares President Ivan Duque, reunion team in Bogotá with the alto commissioned by the ONU for refugees, Filippo Grandi. “We are not a rich country, we are a medium-sized country and we have a large fiscal front in this situation,” the mandate recorded. It is hoped that other countries in the region will follow suit, and that the international community will contribute resources and resources to the migrant population. “With this Colombia reaffirms its love and response to all the Venezuelan people who are victims of this tragedy,” concluded Nicolás Maduro’s regime in reference.
More than fifty million Venezuelans lived in their homeland due to hyperinflation, food and drug insecurity in the last years, a massive flood that intensified with the deterrent of the economic crisis and the institutional blockade in Carac . Of these, a third has been found in the search for opportunities in Colombia, with Venezuela comparing more than 2,200 kilometers of a porous front in the abundance of informal crosses known as “trochas”. As of 2020, there are 1,729,537 Venezuelans on the other side of the limit line, of which 966,714 are found in irregular situations – and they are said to have entered through the doorways, exceeding the terms of the concession allowed, to agree with the Colombian Migration Digits. During 2019 the number in an irregular situation multiplies by two, and is stabilized at this point during the first quarter of 2020, when the pandemic changes to complete the expectations of all the inhabitants of the region.
The announced legal mechanism – complementary to the international refugee protection regime, which he explained to the Colombian authorities – was essentially looking to register a single register of the Venezuelan migrant population – which would prevent the authorities from going further and further transits to the regular migratory regime. The media include all of the regular Venezuelan migrants, who are being held in Colombia in an irregular situation by January 31, 2021 and who entered Colombia through a migration check during the first years of the state of the temporary state. of Protection for Venezuelan Migrants (ETPV).
“It is an emblematic humanitarian gesture for the region, including around the world”, signaled Grandi, ACNUR’s cadet, but stated that it represents a compromise with human rights and will allow, among other things, a mayor to cover vacancies in the middle of the pandemic attention. “This important act of solidarity will allow approximately one hundred thousand refugees and Venezuelan migrants in the region to be able to formally access services and contribute to the Colombian economy”, underlined by a statement from the Secretary General of the UN Secretary-General.
The pandemic has evidently witnessed the precarious conditions of the Venezuelan migrants scattered across Latin America. Colombia, the most important country in the world, forms part of the sectors most exposed to coronavirus. In its heyday, especially the papal caretaker, part of the vulnerable fringes of society that he felt were most strongly affected by the economic crisis provoked by the pandemic –new of any food diet the sons of informality–. The means of confinement decreed to contain the contagios he had been waiting for the last year to gain life in the cities in which he found refuge. On the other hand, in his country of origin, as far as miles go, the cavalry authorities treat him with “biological arms” and restrict his return. However, Colombian authorities have announced that, despite the frontier crisis in the wake of the sanitary crisis, the migratory flu has reacted and will be on the horizon in cases of xenophobia.
The massive migration has produced a noemenswaardige pressure on the Colombian public services. Duke dijo in December that, anem the time has a lame effect that powder provokes an “stamp”, the migrants without papules no tendrían derecho to the vaccine against the covid-19 that is empezará to administer the February 20, a affirmation that the cost a lot of criticism. Since then, the sanitary authorities have taken up the post, and the President has repeatedly requested the mobilization of appeals from the international community to address the mayor’s migration crisis on the continent. The announcement offers a much clearer sanitary horizon to all these people, who are covered in a pandemic in the meantime.
“In a normative advance without precedents in its migration policy, Colombia assumes the compromise of establishing a Temporary Protection Statute to support the miles of Venezuelan people it has committed to its impetus for integration. This is a referendum for a world that has some more obstacles for migrants, ”said Lucas Gómez, Presidential President of the Frontier and Migration of Venezuela. Enter a “benefit number” for the migrant population from the health insurance as part of a regulation that will be included in the evacuation plans.
Xenophobia and frontierism
In the principle of the pandemic, it has been raised negatively in the face of people of Venezuelan origin and a serious point in the periodic medicine of the Invamer city. At the moment, the prejudices are multiplying by the fact that the migrants are making a contagion vector. Dicha hypothesis is that little by little it is described by the hechos, and the xenophobic raisin is reduced, leading to pre-pandemic levels.
However, at the same time, there is a slight increase in the percentage of Colombian citizens who consider it appropriate to maintain the lowered front for the pandemic transit.
It would be a minority of a quarter against the three districts that it would prefer, but it is possible that the Presidential announcement has a positive effect on these indices, supporting both the integration of the health and evacuation scheme of Colombia. Neither the institutional structure of the country nor its population is inhabited by the reception of large contingents of people, but this reto can serve exactly as detonating.