Roads blocked during anti-illegal immigration protest in northern Chile (against Venezuela migrants)

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[11th_VA]

Santiago, Jan 31 (EFE).- The northern Chilean city of Iquique was the scene of roadblocks, store closures and a truck drivers’ strike on Monday, with protesters demanding action to address rising crime and an illegal immigration crisis in that region.

Trucks and other heavy equipment were used to block multiple roads leading into and out of the city and prevent workers from reaching the airport, according to different local reports.

The airport suspended operations early Monday and urged passengers to contact their airline for updates on the status of their flights.

“Retail establishments and the duty-free zone decided not to open, while different social leaders decided to join in the protest. The call (for change) is quite big at this time,” Mayor Mauricio Soria said.

Monday’s actions come after hundreds of people demonstrated Sunday in different parts of the far-northern Tarapaca region – home to Iquique and more than 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles) north of Santiago – against the presence of undocumented migrants.

During that gathering, some protesters broke up tent structures used by foreigners and held up xenophobic signs…

After a surge in illegal border crossings in February 2021, the crisis worsened further in October when hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants fleeing economic crisis in their homeland occupied public squares and avenues, an influx that led the Chilean government to announce the construction of several shelters to mitigate the crisis.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said in December that nearly 500 Venezuelan refugees and migrants, including children, cross daily from Bolivia to Chile via irregular border crossings and arrive at their destination “after several day…

[11th_VA]

No open borders here? Stranger than fiction …

[griswold3]

Could this be DeGlobalization?

[lapsus calami]

 

 

The world's like one big kicked-over anthill these days. And everybody is having the same dang problems wherever they are.

 

 

[SuperLuminal]

Amazing that all around the globe people are out in the streets protesting government tyranny...

Everywhere, that is, except here in the United States where citizens know only how to subserviently:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...

[Gay State Conservative]

I've read that Chile is just about the most civilized and prosperous country in South America.And,of course,Venezuela is the least civilized.

[dfwgator]

I've read that Chile is just about the most civilized and prosperous country in South America.

It was, but apparently they are determined to undo all the good that Pinochet did.

[TigersEye]

It’s racissism. They just want to keep out the brown-skinned Spanish-speaking Venezuelans.

[caww]

Protestors tore down and burned the illegals camps

[caww]

[caww]

People are fed up with illegals around the world I think. It was a much more stable world when borders were respected rather than the throngs invading other countries.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

That, and the covid communism, economic upheaval, all the unrest. Everything, the whole package. Unnecessary and avoidable, people are sensing that, beginning to act on it now.