At an informal settlement near a disused landfill, a group of migrants anxiously await the outcome of Chile’s presidential election, in which many voters are baying for them to be thrown out.

Illegal migration, which many Chileans link to a crime surge, is a hot topic in the election.

Two hard-right candidates are threatening to deport all of the 330,000 people living illegally in the country.

Far-right lawyer Jose Antonio Kast has called on them to sell up and leave of their own volition or be thrown out and lose everything if he becomes president.

Some 2,000 families, mostly Haitians, Peruvians, Venezuelans and Colombians, live crammed in a sea of modest brick homes with tin roofs in Nuevo Amanecer (New Dawn), a settlement west of Santiago.

Like Suhey Garcia, her husband and three c

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