Lima, (EFE)
“You yourselves are the ones who transmit every day (…) that those who commit daily assaults, robberies and other criminal acts are foreigners, that is why we have to reformulate the immigration law, look at this issue of migration (…) they have 800,000 Venezuelans have entered, as many Haitians, and they are the ones who are unfortunately committing these acts,” Boluarte said at a press conference.
During it, he assured that the then president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018) “allowed free entry through northern Peru” to migrants and, according to his data, at that time 800,000 Venezuelans and “many other Haitians” entered. whom he held responsible for crime without making distinctions.
“That is why we have to speak almost in unison about migration with citizen insecurity,” stressed the Peruvian president.
State of emergency
Shortly before, and in the same press conference, he explained that his Government declared a state of emergency in all its border areas with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Chile to increase the “control of foreign citizens” in the country.
“A supreme decree has been approved that declares a state of emergency in the border area of the departments of Tumbes, Piura, Cajamarca, Amazonas, Loreto, Madre de Dios and Tacna,” announced the president, referring to all the Peruvian regions. that have a border, to which Puno is added, where this exceptional regime is already in force due to the protests.
Boluarte affirmed that this measure “will allow the execution of police operations related to border control in order to prevent internal order and the constitutional rights of the population.”