More than half of the 1.5 million foreigners in Peru, mostly from Venezuela, are in the country under an irregular immigration status, Peru's interior minister said Wednesday.
Using data through mid-April, Interior Minister Vicente Romero said some 60% of foreigners living in Peru had entered or stayed in the country without the proper documents, which has had an impact on "public security, public services and employment," he said.
The minister's words, given as part of a presentation in Congress, come as President Dina Boluarte's administration has doubled down on surveillance along the borders, sending in the armed forces to shore up security as hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants remain stranded on Peru's border with Chile.
