translated from Spanish: Director of the SJM stung against Bellolio for saids about crisis at the border: “It’s a shame that I say that”

The director of the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM), José Tomás Vicuña, responded to the statements of the head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Migration, Alvaro Bellolio, who defended the Government in the face of the migration crisis in Chacalluta and said they seek to avoid mistakes from the previous administration.
In the face of these sayings, Vicuña argued: “He volunteered for the Jesuit Service to Migrants and it is a little paradoxical for him to say that. Then where did we say that? He’s lying and that in a public authority is very serious.”
In an interview with Radio Universo, the director of the SJM said that “we have Spanish courses, we are the NGO that serves more migrants, we have a network of companies, we have legal advice, it is a shame that he says that being a public authority, meeting before taking on the previous director of the Jesuit Migrant Service, if we hadn’t done anything, it wouldn’t have met, it’s a disgrace against the people of Haiti as well.”
“He’s been with them, he’s talked to them, we’ve always said, he’s on the website, we have proposals and nowhere have we said that anyone can get in and out, live the irregularity,” he added, adding, and adding, “that’s a lie and it’s very serious that an aut Public ority say it, it is very serious that he says so having volunteered for the SJM (…) Why do you say that, where does he get that information?” he added.
With regard to the situation at the border, Vicuña argued that it was urgent that the countries of the region act in a coordinated manner. “How far has the administrative primate of humanitarians? If I have infants for six days sleeping in the open and say no, it is that they have to go to Tacna to get a document… let’s look at exceptional measures thinking that the people of Venezuela don’t have identity documents until they’re 9 years old. Yesterday a father was demanding DNA tests at the Tacna consulate.”
“Chile has also wanted to position itself as a regional leader of what is happening in Venezuela, well why do countries either agree and start setting joint actions with actions on the Venezuelan people?” he questioned. 
Finally, Vicuña indicated that “the flow of Venezuelans will increase, the projections are that it will continue to increase and almost 85% is in South America. That’s going to be impossible to stop because they’re running away from Venezuela.”

Original source in Spanish

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