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About 870,000 regular Venezuelans, regularized and irregular, live in Colombia, reported Thursday, July 19 the country's director of migration, Christian Krüger Sarmiento, who said that the exodus would continue if Venezuela is still ruled by Nicolás Maduro .
The figure represents a 5% increase over the latest report submitted by the Colombian Immigration Authority in early June.
out of the 870,000, some 382,000 are legally, a little over 442,000 are in regularization, while about 46,000 are irregularly.
"To date, we have regularized more than 382,000 and are awaiting the signature of the Decree by the national government to initiate the regularization of the more than 442,000 Venezuelans who made the administrative register for Venezuelan migrants, who Krüger asserted that the policy implemented by Maduro "motivated the exodus of thousands of Venezuelan citizens and with him the disintegration of an equal number of families"
He assured that the Venezuelan government has " a policy of expulsion even of its own nationals, since the fewer people there are in the country, the more they have much smaller to share. "
The director said that Colombia is working with other countries in the region to help Venezuelan migrants, but recalls that if this trend continues" in the first few weeks of August, nearly one million Venezuelans will live in Colombia. "[19659005] Of the 870,000 Venezuelans living in Colombia, about 24%, or just over 204,000, are in Bogotá .
2018-07-19
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