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In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, migrants in Brazil are aggravated by their lack of sources of economic income and by language barriers, alerted activist and advisor Leticia Carvallo, from the organization Misión de Paz.

Carvallo assured that the health crisis aggravated the situation of human, labor and even social rights of these populations, who also face the stigma of "bringing the virus from outside". He regretted that the treatment "worsens depending on skin color", accentuating "the structural racism" that exists.

According to the United Nations Organization, in 2019 it was registered that in Brazil there are around 807 thousand 6 migrants, which represents .39 percent of the total population. It was highlighted that the greatest immigration comes from Portugal, Japan, Paraguay and Bolivia.

Through a virtual discussion, organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Brazil - Paraguay Foundation (from Sao Paulo), Carvallo assured that the current proposals of Bolsonaro and his government to confront COVID-19 put the lives of migrants at risk, who in the majority "cannot even access health systems due to the lack of documents."

In this regard, he stressed that the proposal for "community immunization", which seeks that at least 70 percent of people get infected to develop immunity, is a "possible tragedy in the poorest neighborhoods", where a large part of the migrants.

During his campaign, in 2018, the country's president, Jair Bolsonaro, had stated his intention to create a "refugee camp" for Venezuelans, assuring that the country "could not be open doors." Weeks after his proposal, local media reported that in a city in the north of the country, the homes of Venezuelans were burned down.

Carvallo called on the international community to show solidarity with the migrants, who "for the most part continue to operate the machinery of the system," stressing that they are the ones who "will pay the most expensive bill" for the virus, because those who have "formal work" They cannot stop and those who work in "informality" have been without income for weeks.