translated from Spanish: Criminal Defender before controversy: “the people who migrate are people and have DD. HH., from the moment that it migrating”

“all regulations that exist in the matter is to give protection to the rights of persons who migrate, then it is not an ideological issue. If the problem of migration, especially in Latin America, we do not have with regular migration (…) the migration coming to Chile, in fact, it is an irregular migration. And it arrives in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, mostly. But they are people who are escaping from a very complex situation within their respective States. Consequently, they come in a ninety-something per cent of irregular shape, with tourist visa, but they come to stay. They come to settle, they come tearing of a complex situation.” Thus it came this morning to the debate by migration the national Ombudsman, Andrés Mahnke, then that La Moneda decided not to sign the immigration Pact United Nations.” And in this context, the States has two alternatives. Or I belong from the point of view of national sovereignty to take care of my people, so to speak, and my territory and therefore what should I do? I put income barriers, barriers remain, and facilitated the outputs of the country. That is like the general cycle. The other view, from the point of view of human rights, (is that) these people came to our country and we must care for them from the point of view that are integrated and a development opportunity but having legal guardianship of all rights to tenem You us Chileans in our country. That is change”, said on Radio Universo.Consultado if migration is or not a human right, in allusion to the statements of the Undersecretary of Interior, Rodrigo Ubilla, who said that it was not him, answered:”Yes it is that my country is working in a particular way in order to see it as sovereignty it is impossible that one can do both at the same time. “I’m going to worry about the integration and development of the migrant and I’m going to worry about putting barriers to that and try to take it if you voluntarily want to leave”. Followed by: “the question is not so relevant, though: people who migrate are people and have human rights, from the moment that it migrating.” Then that migration, because it is an almost semantic problem, international migration is a human right it is not relevant because since I migrated, and I’m in another country, they have to be respected all my rights. Then I respect or not if I migrated was a human right, it should not enter into the debate that I have to give legal protection of all the rights that are enshrined in the State of Chile, or in any other State , from the point of view of international law. It is as if we declare that it is not human right, then Yes we can violate the human rights of the migrants in our country. And that cannot be.”

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