qWhatever the reasons (conflict, hunger, climate change), forced migrations, most often intertwined, constitute one of the main collective challenges of our century, which requires the solidity of our principles as well as “our imagination.” .
But what are we preparing to define a dignified and organized response? What should be the immigration policy? “based on solidarity”Can the European Union (EU) really boast about itself today? She, who has already counted 30,000 deaths in her seas in the last ten years, like so many disposable and “immorable” lives. She, who organizes the institutional violence of the migratory routes on her soil. She, whose immigration “policy” has become, in a few years, the axis of her own moral failure.
Because we have been unraveling the fundamental principles of European construction for years. By virtue of the fight against the so-called “air demand”, all means seem to have been good to get rid of our asylum policy, to roll it back, to evacuate it… to the point of externalizing it, because Here is now the key word: after years of “cooperation” agreements with third countries – such as Libya or Turkey – in exchange for hard cash, so that they can keep asylum seekers in their countries, today it is about promote this company more and more. further.
morbid admiration
Outsourcing the processing of the asylum application in the first place. The extreme right laboratory that Giorgia Meloni’s Italy has become has been perfectly illustrated in this regard: so that the modest thousands of asylum applications coming from maritime routes are no longer studied on its soil, Italy makes an agreement with Albania at the expense of costly contortions that consist of retransferring individuals to this “associated territory.”
This project was nipped in the bud since the Italian justice system rushed to cancel the first transfers a few days ago. In short, it suffered the same fate as the British “Rwanda plan,” abandoned this summer, at the unnecessary cost of a few billion dollars. All this inspired by the “Nauru plan » Australia (600 million euros a year for the transfer of 3,000 detained people out of sight), named after this small island in the South Pacific thus transformed into an open-air prison.
However, neither the risks of human rights violations nor the disproportionate amount of sums involved seem to stop the morbid admiration of some of our political leaders for these mirage solutions.
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