The government presented an ammendment to the bill that modifies the migration law to perfect the administrative process of expulsions. In it, it proposes that schools and hospitals have a duty to inform on undocumented inmigrants. MIGRA’s main investigators, Mayra Feddersen and Olaya Grau where interviewed on the matter.
On the one hand, prof. Mayra Feddersen highlighted that in an experimental study she conducted, evidence showed that exposure to a restrictive migration policy led to people less willing to attend hospitals after work related accidents, less willing to demand labour rights and diminished their reporting of crimes. She concluded that a correct migratory policy must not make undocumented inmigrants less visible and afraid to turn to the State.
On the other hand, prof. Olaya Grau emphasised that a serious migration policy not only focuses on controlling the border, but also on strengthening the State. She argued that this measure, by driving away inmigrants, does not strengthen the State, but weakens it.
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