(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL leaflet - migrant
women, migrants, refugees es: no one is illegal (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]
Big mouths of the FN and the former UMP screaming in the media that a wave of migrants is
about to overwhelm France and threaten its "culture." During that time, the PS government
claims that it wants to host refugee-es but figures it announces are ridiculous and it
continues to expel, move and push the migrants. Facing all these politicians who are
trying to scare the people to grab votes, we will continue to repeat that the solution is
freedom of movement. ---- The migrants do not steal other people's work ---- First
argument used in xenophobic discourse: that of unemployment and lack of wealth. From what
we are told, there would not be enough work for everybody and we could not accommodate
"all the misery of the world." But he would still remember that migrants consume, produce,
create wealth, etc. The migrants do not take anyone's job but are directly involved in
economic activity.
And who would have us believe that other workers are fighting for the jobs underpaid, and
sometimes risky undeclared occupied by migrants? The right-wing agitators and extreme
right want to put the migrants for pests, but often they do not receive any social
assistance (because they are undocumented) and in all cases they relate to the more
society they do it "cost".
Tract AL No One Is Illegal
The migrants invade nobody
Second argument used racist discourse "cultural identity" of France is threatened by
massive migrations. Take a calculator: even if France welcomed 500,000 overnight migrants,
this would represent less than 1% of the population. At the level of the European Union,
it is even clearer: 1 million for 500 refugee-es-es million inhabitants, that makes 0.2%
of the population ... and we hear invasion?
Prior to the border closure in 1974, there has never been a tidal wave of migration in
France despite wars and famines in the world. Rather than spending millions of euros to
build walls, especially ensuring border and build outrageous detention centers, the
solution is to restore freedom of movement and to invest in the home rather than repression.
There housing for everyone
Last argument used by politicians who refuse to welcome migrants: lack of housing. Of
course, there is a housing problem in France, which does not touch the migrants, but this
problem would be resolved quickly if we decided to requisition the tens of thousands of
square meters of left free housing by real estate speculators . As for the distribution of
wealth, the solution to the housing problem is not the selection and exclusion, but the
pooling and sharing.
We defend:
freedom of movement and settlement
stop arbitrary arrests
the closure of detention centers
stop evictions
the regularization of all and all the undocumented.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?migrantes-migrants-refugie-es
