(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Undocumented
Migrants: one solution, freedom of movement (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]
Front National Socialist Party, everyone agrees that we need to lock the borders and
control immigration drastically. There are some differences in shape or virulence in
speeches, but all come together to say that immigration and immigrant-es destabilize the
economy. This idea is now widely used to harden even more repressive laws and police
equipment. And yet this is a completely false idea. ---- The argument we hear most is to
denounce the alleged "cost" of immigration, that is to say, the social benefits (RSA,
housing and unemployment benefits) paid to immigrant-es. But what we often forget to
remember is that these immigrants-are paying into Social Security, buy consumer goods, pay
taxes (including VAT, which alone accounts for half of the tax revenue of the state).
Similarly, the immigrant-es contribute to retirement but often receive no pension, either
because they do not have their account quarters, because they return to their country of
origin before to assert their rights.
But the most unfair situation remains that of the workers' undocumented workers in
unimaginable operating conditions, pay social contributions and can not yet benefit from
the social benefits they may be entitled.
This is not the immigrant-es that block the accounts of Social Security, the mass
unemployment and the continued reduction of employer contributions. If unemployment is
over 10%, it is a direct consequence of the laws of capitalism, nothing else. And if the
law of the market continues to lead our lives, there is always ready to excuse patterns
that high unemployment to raise the pressure on the employee-es and blame the
immigrant-es. Let us not result in discourses that stigmatize immigrants es to hide the
action of real profiteers, true parasites: the s?p?culateurs, politicians, capitalists.
Stop hunting undocumented!
Which is expensive, for cons, it is the policy of "controlling migration flows" and
hunting undocumented ruthlessly conducted by the UMP as in the PS: when you know that
deportation would cost a close EUR 20 000, there is something to think about resource
allocation ... And this is not the deployment of a new security arrangements between
France and the United Kingdom and the shameful construction project of a wall in Calais
which may lower the rating of blind war against the undocumented. As for the draft laws
submitted by the government, they only aggravate the reform of the Code of entry and
residence of foreigners and asylum (CESEDA).
Against the myth of the "invasion of immigrants-es"
Second argument: that the "invasion" of immigrant-es. To counter it, just remember that
the majority of migration flows are the same within the countries of the South and that
only a small portion going to the West. Before 1974, when the borders were open, no
invasion took place, even though many African countries crossed hardships. As for all laws
passed since 1974, more ferocious and inhumane, it is enough to see the consequences:
they throw in hiding tens of thousands;
they create a worker-its mass undocumented, deprived of any right-es, es operated by the
owners of the building or restoration without SHI ...
To end the myth of the "foreign invasion" to end the regime of fear and exploitation
created by the anti-migration laws, we stand:
freedom of movement and settlement;
stop arbitrary arrests;
the closure of detention centers;
stopping evictions;
the regularization of all undocumented.
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