Expulsion of minors to Morocco: the PSOE-Unidas Podemos government blends itself with VOX
The policy of the Spanish executive is neither progressive nor left-wing, turns more and more to the right.
He 17 Y 18 of May 8.000 people came to Ceuta. Most are young people between 16 Y 30 years and 1.500 they are minors. They come from Morocco and other sub-Saharan countries. They entered Spain skirting the border maritime breakwaters on foot or swimming across the sea. The government of Pedro Sánchez (PSOE-United We Can) responded by sending 200 cops, Scientific Police staff, Immigration and Borders; to join the 1.100 agents already deployed. Y, on Friday 13 of August, the order issued by the Ministry of the Interior to carry out the "repatriation" from 800 underage people.
Life for better conditions
The diplomatic friction caused the Moroccan gendarme at the entrance to Spain and the European Union to lift border surveillance and allow massive entry. In this case as revenge for the reception in a Spanish hospital of the Saharawi leader Brahim Ghali. Disputes between both Kingdoms, they must not hide that we are in the presence of people fleeing hunger, misery and repression. It is the drama suffered by entire families and children alone who risk their lives, and in many cases they lose it, to seek better subsistence conditions. For these reasons, there are many NGOs rejecting repatriation.
Official cynicism with ultra-right agenda
The Ceuta authorities say that the minors must be returned to Morocco due to the poor conditions in which they are housed. Interior Minister Grande-Marlaska argues that "They are repatriated because they want to return". The holder of Social Rights, Ione Belarra (United we can), states that repatriations would be "Something very serious" while offering to collaborate to ensure "The safe return". Regardless of the speeches, the "Progressive coalition" executes measures similar to those of reactionary governments. It does so with the aggravation of responding to the VOX demands.
The representatives of the extreme right demand compliance with the Agreement between Spain and Morocco to prevent the arrival of unaccompanied minors and / or their concerted return. Miserably, blame them for the increase in crime and insecurity in Ceuta, Melilla, Andalusia and Catalonia. And they carry out lying campaigns of criminalization of the people they disparagingly call "Art". So they did with him 4M poster for Madrid, endorsed by the Provincial Court of Madrid. This reactionary instance pointed out that minors “represent an obvious social and political problem, even with consequences or effects on our international relations, as it is notorious”.
No to the “UE fortress”, for a world without borders
Migration crises are repeated over time. In 2015-2016 it was the most important crisis. In 2006 They were 32.000 people who came to the Canary Islands in improvised canoes, from Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. In 2018 they entered the Spanish State 57.500 migrants. Y, in a single weekend of 2020, more than 2.000 migrants in 58 pateras. Crises will continue to occur as long as there are wars, political persecution, hunger and misery, as at present, exacerbated by the bankruptcy of the capitalist economy and the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic.
We reject repatriation. It is such a brutal attempt that even the reactionary Spanish justice stopped them, at least, momentarily. We demand the implementation of humanitarian measures and reception for everyone with papers because “no person is illegal”. We repudiate the implementation of the “UE fortress” discriminatory and anti-human. We will continue to support migrant struggles, denouncing the human rights violations that are repeated in the capitalist system and fighting for a world without borders, a socialist world.
