translated from Spanish: Jesuits criticize Piñera to associate high unemployment with arrival of immigrants

according to the average La Tercera, the national director of the Jesuit service to migrants, the priest José Tomás Vicuña, went out to the passage of the statements of the Pre Pat Sebastián Piñera, who is associated with the rise in unemployment with the arrival of immigrants in the country. Note that the negative figures qe unveiled the INE indicated a rise in unemployment of 7.1% in the quarter July-September. The President had declared that “unemployment figures show an improvement and a decrease in unemployment compared to the previous period. “But what happened last year?, Chile reached 700 thousand people who were not previously, that they are migrants and that led to a huge expansion of the people looking for work, so we decided to put the House in order and regulate migration”. Vicuña don’t expect much to refute as directed by the President, but of strong noted that “so far there no study in Chile who claims that migration has led to unemployment”. He added that “the latest research, ClapesUC with date of July 2018, says that there are null effects both in employment as wages by the arrival of migrants. In addition to the foregoing, that migrants are underrepresented in the INE survey. Indeed a Committee was formed to make changes”. In addition, vicuña recalled, in contrast to indicated by Piñera, that “the international evidence has shown consistently that the arrival of migrant people stimulates the economy”.

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