The number of Venezuelans who migrate to Colombia is not affected by the pandemic. In the last months of 2020, when the front door closed, the governor specified that more than 18,000 would be intercepted while on the streets. Y entre los que ya cruzaron, calculan que more of the meeting is undocumented and the Mayor will certainly not live in Venezuela. These factors create a perfect sea for the governor of Ivan Duque to decide to grant a Temporary Protection Statute (ETP) that separates an imminent deportation, even if it is regular on this day.
Medida no les da la nacionalidad, But analysts in the country said it was applauded for some time now that the Colombian economy was pushing for a historic contraction in 2020, fueled by the covid-19 crisis. Consider that allow to make the first real register of Venezuelan immigrants in Latin America, it is estimated that he moved at least 4.6 million people: 37% of those in Colombia. In addition, there will be documentation, a limited process in Venezuela on the shortcomings and corruption in order to access something as basic as a passport.
“No part of the world is preparing to adopt a migratory phenomenon like the one in Colombia” with the Venezuelan massacre, Analyze Ronal Rodríguez, political scientist and researcher at the Observatory of Venezuela at the University of Rosario, one of the organizations most deeply rooted in Venezuelan skin. “The value of the medium is what it is is a situation in which there is no possibility of congestion and the best thing is to build a route that regulates which allows them to become persecutors and to be confined to the Colombian state, can be accommodated under the auspices of the Colombian International Community and can participate in the economic development “.
Until now, Colombia has only granted Venezuelans a Special Permanence Permit, known as PEP, which authorizes it to be established for two years. Maria Clara Robayo, another of the Observatory’s investigators, considers that this time was very short to generate a life project and explain that Venezuelans work in order to, for example, open a bank account. “Se necesitaban medidas con burgemeester escala temporale”, dice.
While the spectrum is rising and the migration response is taking place in this region of other parts of the region, Robayo is critical of a “conventional response” and not a “humanitarian miracle”. Mention, for example, in Chile, militarizing its frontier with Bolivia to free Venezuelan irregular cruises and to issue visas to them. “It has a protection component and a population that requires international protection. It has a migration management component that seeks to integrate its population, meaning that migrants do not have to move to Venezuela “.
Other examples
Countries such as the United States have adopted Temporary Protection Statement (TPS) for decades of cities with armed conflicts that have seen natural disasters, such as Syria or Haiti, respectively. It has been around since the 90s. Without embargo, although the granting of an authorization to work, the benefit never precedes the residence or the possibility of permanently legalizing its migratory status. Just to give this step, human rights organizations, Democrats in Congress and President Joe Biden’s proposition to approve a law that lives on green card (permanent residence).
The same thing happened to Turkey when it implemented a policy of opening ports with the series of war. Implementation of temporary refugee policies preventing the cesarean conflict, identifying, allowing access to social services and the labor market, but not planting a living permit for permanent residence.
The Colombian approach is different and see for example a truck to the permanent residence, specifically for Venezuelans and the place to spend 10 years in the country near the Statute. Robayo assures that the Colombian model should not be considered as “the best in the world”. The series governs this time the governing contemplative “most profound integrations that involve nationality”, but now it has not been announced.
This 23rd of February ends the gewilde consultation on the Colombian Statute. The process for its implementation is under construction, with missing regulations defining each step. The decree reveals the number and sent a letter of what will be. Here we answer some questions with the information that is known soon:
