In his first hours as President of Chile, José Antonio Kast signed six decrees inaugurating his “emergency government,” featuring measures ranging from border control in the country’s north to a comprehensive audit of the entire public sector.
The measures were signed on Wednesday night following his swearing-in as Head of State, and the details were made public on Thursday. Part of this emergency agenda addresses a strategic and crucial issue for his administration: the control of irregular migration—a subject on which Kast, during his campaign, promised mass deportations, the construction of detention centers, and the criminalization of clandestine immigration.
With promises of a tough stance against crime and illegal immigration, inspired by policies adopted by El Salvador's Nayib Bukele and the United States' Donald Trump, Kast won the support of nearly 60% of an electorate eager for change in the country.
In his speech, Kast—a nostalgic supporter of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, whose legacy and figure he has praised in recent years—gave a nod to the security forces and asserted that they “will have the full backing of the law, the resources of the State, and the political will that they have lacked for so long.”
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