Dozens of migrants trying to leave Chile for fear of being expelled by far-right presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast after December 14 elections are stranded at the border with Peru, authorities reported Friday.

A video posted by the governor of the border region of Arica, some 2,200 kilometers (1,370 miles) north of Santiago, showed dozens of people attempting to exit from Chile at the Chacalluta-Santa Rosa border crossing.

A Venezuelan migrant told the online news outlet The Clinic that the group was trying to leave Chile "for fear that they remove us by force" if Kast becomes the next president.

"They don't want to let us into Peru," the migrant, who preferred to remain anonymous, said.

The Peruvian station Radio Tacna broadcast images of migrants carrying children on the highw

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