Overview
- Migraciones led a coordinated operation on Saturday that deployed police, military and public prosecutors to stop and verify foreign nationals across 17 regions.
- Agencies reported divergent preliminary counts as the operation progressed, with the PNP putting intervened people at 1,494 and Migraciones' rolling reports rising from 857 to 892.
- Migraciones' preliminary balance identified about 280 presumed migratory infractors who may face the Procedimiento Administrativo Sancionador Especial de Expulsión (PASED), including an earlier group of 158 flagged during the sweep.
- Authorities used mobile biometric units, Interpol alerts, remote supervision by Superintendente Luis Fares Yunis Herrera and on‑scene PNP teams to verify identities while the Ministerio Público prepared any criminal denouncements for alleged reentries.
- Next steps include administrative expulsion procedures and coordinated repatriation logistics after a presidential-level call with Venezuela, a likely rise in similar large operations, and immediate effects on Venezuelan and Colombian migrants concentrated in northern and border areas.