Migration director says Venezuelan criminals entered the country because of Mauricio Macri and left to cross it

The Venezuelan community in Argentina has passed to the national director of migration, Florence carignano, who in a television interview said that because of Mauricio Macri, “criminals” of this nationality entered Argentina.

Statements by the official, who was also crossed by former Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie, also revealed that the government studies the repeal of a decree that facilitates the procedures of Venezuelans who flee Chavism and want to settle in this country.

In reality, George trotta gamus, The opponent’s representative Juan Guaidó in Argentina – and that the government stripped of her credentials as an ambassador when she assumed Alberto Fernandez– He went out this weekend to express his “concern” at these comments and declared that “generalizing and stigmatizing a nationality exacerbates xenophobia”.

Trotta Gamus also asked the Argentinian official “to explain what will happen with provision 520/2019 – which has facilitated the procedures in the said community entering this country -” because “it has helped so many brothers and sisters to start a life in Argentina, respecting their laws ”.

Controversy, already reflected in the media of Caracas, also caused a sensation on social networks. He raised the tone after an interview Carignano gave a few days ago to counter criticism received for the repeal of a provision sanctioned by Macri and for which immigrants who have committed crimes in Argentina or had a criminal record were expelled from the country of the country.

“When they tell us that we brought criminals, I say, It seems to me that it was not we who brought the criminals“Carignano began by telling journalist Agustín Laje, from América TV.” When we arrived there was a provision that allowed a certain nationality to enter Argentina and over 600,000 entered undocumented, with expired documents. and without a criminal record check“said the official, stressing that it was a” marketing “decree.

Carignano then aimed against the Provision 520/2019, which was published in January of the same year, when the Director of Migration was Horacio García, and created the< Programme d'assistance aux migrants vénézuéliens >>, to facilitate their entry, regularization and social integration, taking into account the recommendations of the UNHCR (the UN refugee agency), and which urged countries to adopt adequate and pragmatic measures for the protection of Venezuelans.

There were and still are similar measures in other countries such as Colombia, Canada, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Dominican Republic and the Kingdom -United. And now Joe Biden’s government will also implement a program for the special establishment of Venezuelans in the United States.

The Migration Director then spoke of thousands of Venezuelan boys who “have certainly come to live a better life in our country and that is perfect”, but added that they had alleged irregularities in the documentation. And then he pointed out: “The problem is that a lot of them entered are very hardworking like all those who enter Argentina and another is the case of the one who killed the British tourist.” He was referring to the young Venezuelan Angel Eduardo Lozano Azuaje, one of the five inmates for the murder of British businessman Matthew Charles Gibbard in December 2019.

“He was of Venezuelan nationality and he killed the British tourist. They hadn’t checked his background and he had a record. Where in the world do they allow you to enter with expired documents? We have most of these people who entered with this settlement with expired documents. Who brings in people who have crimes or who have committed crimes? So we mean that while they were going with a marketing decree and you put a lot of glitter on everything, behind they were doing it: they come in without checking criminal records. “

Predictable, went out to cross it the former chancellor of Cambiemos Jorge Faurie. “The director of migration does NOT distort the Macri government decree in 2019 which paved the way for the migratory regularization of Venezuelans who arrived in the country fleeing the Maduro dictatorship and the dramatic economic, social and professional consequences which led them to the ‘exile,’ he replied. And he continued: “Venezuela in the 1970s gave refuge and life opportunities to hundreds of Argentines who escaped military dictatorship. Argentina 40 years later has reciprocated this generous gesture. a life and securing freedom is NEVER marketing. “

Members of the Venezuelan community in Argentina also criticized Carignano’s statements. They said the UNHCR and IOM platforms, fed by official information from Argentina, reported on 222,658 Venezuelans in this country and not 600,000. And they pointed out that it was “false” that provision 520/2019 allowed the residence to be entered and processed without presenting a criminal record certificate. “What the provision exempts is that this certificate is apostilled by the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But it says that the criminal record certificate must be presented, and the DNM will check them on the website of the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ‘inside or with the Venezuelan Consulate,’ they stressed.

From Caracas, Venezuelan opposition MP Carlos Valero described as Carignano’s “stigmatizing” statements, and regretted that they were “contrary to the idiosyncrasy of the Argentine people who welcomed and supported the Venezuelans”.