POLICY

Peru extended the state of siege and will expel illegal immigrants

La presidenta Dina Boluarte adelantó que, durante la emergencia, el Ejército intervendrá como apoyo a la Policía Nacional del Perú (PNP).    

  • 21/09/2023 • 22:45

Three districts have been declared in emergency. San Juan de Lurigancho, San Martín de Porres and Sullana, in Piura, to be able to firmly and decisively confront this fight against crime and organized crime," explained Boluarte after leading the session of the Council of Ministers, remotely, from the United States. Joined.

 

The measures were defended this Monday by the head of the Council of Ministers, Alberto Otárola, and by the Minister of the Interior, Vicente Romero.

 

Otárola insisted on the need to “protect the population and reduce the feeling of lack of protection” and therefore demanded that Congress hand over the legislative powers requested by the Executive.

 

"The measures that the Government is taking in the fight against citizen insecurity, and surely the next radical measures that we are going to take once Congress gives us legislative powers, are going to be intended not only to protect the population but to reduce the feeling of citizen insecurity in the country, because that is our duty,” he said, according to the state news agency Andina.

 

He considered “a duty and an obligation” of the Government “to work day by day to care for the most needy, for the health of the poorest, for the safety of all those Peruvians who live in terror of these hordes of criminals who make a clean slate.” for respect for the dignity and integrity of people.”

 

Meanwhile, Romero announced that foreigners who do not regularize their immigration status before the Immigration Superintendency before November 10 must leave the country.