A Uruguayan expressed her discontent on social media towards those who are bothered by the arrival of immigrants to the country and their efforts to make a living by working.
Anna Karina expressed on TikTok that Cubans, Venezuelans, and Colombians are not taking anyone's job in Uruguay: "No one is coming to take anything away from you; what happens is that many Uruguayans do not like to work in things that they do."
"They do come to move forward and do not make excuses, they come and work," pointed out the woman, who defended the immigrants who arrive in her country because "they achieve in a couple of years what a Uruguayan cannot achieve in 20."
According to Karina, emigrants refrain from many things that she considered luxuries and, on the contrary, focus on working: "They work hard."
He admitted that he gets very upset with people who comment that immigrants come to steal jobs from nationals, and he said to them: "Uruguay was made by foreigners, by immigrants."
He also challenged them: "What bothers you about shaking hands with an immigrant? You never know which side of the wheel you might end up on one day."
He acknowledged feeling ashamed of the way some Uruguayans treat immigrants: "Learn from them to be more friendly and cheerful, because they go through a lot in life and never lose their smile."
Finally, he also expressed his displeasure with Uruguayan women who suggest that Cuban, Colombian, or Dominican women steal husbands: "Nobody steals them from you, your husband left because he wanted to, besides all of them are beautiful, and they make a lot of effort to be even more beautiful beyond biology being on their side."
"They get up and get ready, always looking beautiful, with a smile that adorns them from head to toe. They have a beautiful seasoning," he pointed out.
In recent years, Cubans have been choosing Uruguay as a destination for migration. And this country has taken measures to regularize them.
Last May, for example, the government signed a decree that will allow thousands of Cubans in that country to resolve their immigration status, a benefit that undocumented individuals have been requesting for months.
After several years of demanding actions from the government of Luis Lacalle Pou to be granted residency in the South American country, Cubans and other immigrants of nationalities that require a visa to enter Uruguay will finally be able to obtain legal status.
However, the more than 20,000 Cubans living in that nation, who have the legal possibility of becoming candidates to obtain citizenship of that country, will receive a passport that, in practice, does not separate them much from their homeland since it is ineffective for obtaining visas and traveling to hundreds of countries.
The Uruguayan constitution in its article 73 distinguishes citizens between "legal and natural", this regulation limits mobility rights to migrants who obtain citizenship in the country.
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