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Colombian immigration authorities have detected 21,000 fake Border Mobility Maps (TMFs) in a week during three-stage checks between Colombia and Venezuela, official sources reported today.
. They will be used to inspect the travel documents of the more than 48,000 people who cross the three authorized daily steps in the Norte de Santander department, said in a statement the director of Migration Colombia, Christian Krüger.
He explained that the test will initially work only in this department and that this has allowed, in addition to discovering false documents, to capture two foreigners wanted for the crime of drug trafficking.
These maps were created by the Colombian government to facilitate the crossing of the border According to Krüger, this type of measures not only aims to strengthen the border. order in the immigration cases, but also to protect the country from possible threats that could come to attack the country.
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It recalls that on the Simón Bolívar bridge, which links the Venezuelan San Antonio del Táchira to the Colombian Cúcuta, about 80% of the total number of people coming from Venezuela enter.
The new process of control is carried out in only five seconds thanks to an application which makes it possible to verify the identity of the persons in different databases.
In a recent interview with Efe, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said that more than one million Venezuelans have settled permanently in the country.
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