Chile Probes Entry of Haitian Children Under Family Reunification
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Chile probes entry of Haitian children under family reunification
SANTIAGO, June 19 - Chile's foreign ministry said on Friday it was cooperating with a prosecutor's investigation into the entry of Haitian minors under family reunification permits, after authorities found that some of the children later could not be located at the addresses provided for them. Read more at straitstimes.com.
For about two and a half hours, on the afternoon of Thursday, June 18, the national prosecutor Ángel Valencia met with his teams and regional prosecutor Francisco Jacir, to define the first provisions that they deployed in the case due to possible irregularities in the entry of dozens of Haitian children. Together with the heads of the units specialized in Anticorruption, Organized Crime, Human Rights, the Victims and Witnesses Division, and the…
Since 2023, after the implementation of the family reunification programme, “an extraordinary number” of Haitian children and adolescents were warned of entering Chile. Despite the irregularities detected in charter flights, in 2024 the government of Boric relaxed the documents required for children in that country. Here, the step by step and the ongoing investigation are reported. May 14, 2022. By Decree No. 177 of the government of Gabriel Bor…
A staff member of the National Migration Service (Sermig) would be one of the persons investigated in the case of the approximately 200 Haitian minors who entered the country in 2025 and whose whereabouts are unknown; the Metropolitan Prosecutor Centro Norte, Francisco Jacir, led the formation of a task force with groups of the Investigative Police (PDI), including the National Head of Foreign Affairs and National Affairs, and specialized brigad…
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