The regulations highlight the creation of the crime of “promoting illegal trafficking in human beings”.
The recently approved Law against Illicit Trafficking in Persons will be vetoed, announced today on Twitter by the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele.
The law against illegal trafficking in human beings was approved yesterday by the Legislative Assembly. Bukele claimed “I am the last person who wants our people to leave” and added “but we cannot continue to criminalize migration”.
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“Someone who kidnaps and traffics their victim is very different from someone who helps a group of desperate people cross a border,” Bukele wrote on the social network. “This law will be FORBIDDEN,” he concluded.
The regulations highlight the creation of the crime of “promoting illegal trafficking in human beings”.
This crime consists of promoting illegal trafficking in human beings in order to evade immigration control, either through information and communication technologies. The penalty for committing is between 4 and 8 years in prison. The regulations were proposed by the Prosecutor’s Office on December 7, 2020.
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What Bukele wrote confronts the position of the United States diplomatic representation, a destination for thousands of Salvadoran migrants every year.
“There is joy when a country recognizes that its citizens cannot be used as trafficking in goods. The step taken by El Salvador protects vulnerable people from illegal human trafficking and severely punishes traffickers who offer them #unviajeenvano “, wrote on Twitter, Brendan O’Brien, Chargé d’Affaires and Ambassador to the United States in El Salvador.
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It is also a collision with the work promoted by the Prosecutor’s Office.
“On this day we set a historic goal in the country. After almost 2 years of work, we finally managed to transform the initiative into the Special Law against Illegal Trafficking in Persons “, wrote the General Prosecutor, Raúl Melara, after knowing its approval.