Chile's New Right-Wing Government Scraps Plan to Legalize Undocumented Immigrants

Santiago. Chile's new right-wing government announced on Monday that it is canceling the plan to grant legal status to tens of thousands of immigrants who entered the country irregularly.President Gabriel Boric's previous leftist government had committed to granting legal status to 182,000 people who had applied for legal residency.The new government of José Antonio Kast, which campaigned on a promise to tighten immigration controls, will not implement this order, according to the immigration service.“We will not proceed with the mass granting of residency documents as proposed by the Boric government,” said Frank Sauerbaum, director of the immigration service.Kast ordered the...