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Chile carries out first deportation flight as part of new migration plan

Authorities deported 40 foreign nationals, including 15 ordered out for crimes, as Chile begins enforcing President Jose Antonio Kast’s immigration crackdown.

  • Chile's government under President Jose Antonio Kast conducted its first deportation flight, removing 40 foreign nationals to Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador as part of a new immigration reform plan.
  • Of those deported, 15 were expelled by court order for crimes such as robbery and drug offenses, while 25 faced administrative deportation for irregular migration status.
  • Since Kast's election, 2,180 Venezuelans have voluntarily left Chile amid intensified immigration enforcement and tightened border controls, indicating a deterrence effect.
  • The government plans to continue deportation operations regularly, with at least two flights per month and increased border security measures to reduce irregular migration.
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Forty citizens were deported to Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador in an operation that the Government claims to be part of an immigration reform plan under way since March.

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One of the 40 irregular migrants expelled on the first flight of the administration of José Antonio Kast was arrested in Colombia, after the local police found that he kept a warrant for the arrest in force for the crime of homicide. The subject was identified as Edison Andrés Saavedra Laiseca, who recorded two arrest warrants issued by Colombian courts, for the crimes of homicide and theft. As a result, the Chilean Investigative Police coordina…

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By Cristopher Ulloa, CNN en Español This Thursday took off from Santiago the first plane with 40 migrants expelled from Chile by the government of President José Antonio Kast. The measure seeks to fulfill one of its main campaign promises: to expel more than 300,000 migrants in an irregular situation from the southern country, most of them from Venezuela. However, on this first flight there was no Venezuelan citizen. “We were given a country wit…

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vlnradio.cl broke the news on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.
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