Overview
- The National Migration Service confirmed Monday it will not carry out a Boric-era plan to grant legal status to about 182,000 people listed after entering Chile without documents.
- Officials framed the reversal as a security step and asserted that roughly 6,000 people in the regularization pool had already committed crimes.
- The government said it will send two bills to Congress that would criminalize illegal entry and punish those who help people cross the border unlawfully.
- Kast’s “Plan Escudo Fronterizo” adds trenches, physical barriers, cameras, drones, and more troops in the northern regions of Arica y Parinacota, Tarapacá, and Antofagasta.
- Labor inspectors will increase checks in sectors like construction and food service with a stated dissuasive focus, while Kast has also pledged expulsions affecting roughly 337,000 irregular residents, most from Venezuela.