The Peruvian police prevented dozens of them migrants _between Venezuelans, Haitians and Ecuadorians, who lived in Chile_entering Peru on their way back to their country of origin.

Migrants, including pregnant women and children, were among the most border posts of Santa Rosa, in Peru, and Chacalluta, in Chile. There, fifty Peruvian police officers formed a cordon to prevent migrants from entering the country.

Most of them have indicated that they want to enter Peru to continue their journey to Lima and then to Lima Tumbes on the border with Ecuadorto reach his country Venezuela.

“I decided to return to Venezuela, which is what we all want here, to let us pass and We want to go back to Venezuela because they don’t want us in Chile anymore because they already see us as the criminals out there and that we are not to blame,” he told the ep the Venezuelan Marina Arellana, who worked as a merchant in Chile.

“We want to go back to our country and never come back.”, declared the Ecuadorian Stephanie Alvendrago.

Chile began deploying the military in February to guard its borders with Peru and Bolivia in an effort to control the entry of migrants through unauthorized crossings.