Chile’s Trump-inspired border controls complicate life for migrants

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Chile’s Trump-inspired border controls complicate life for migrants

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Just after taking office, Chile’s new far-right President José Antonio Kast pledged to expel more than 300,000 undocumented migrants. Two months into his presidency, the mass departures that many predicted have not happened. The construction of a border wall with Peru, modelled on US President Donald Trump’s wall, does not seem to be stopping migrants from attempting to cross into Chile. But in Tacna, the last Peruvian city before the Chilean border, life is becoming increasingly difficult for migrants. FRANCE 24’s Martin Chabal and Agathe Fourcade report, with Wassim Cornet.

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