A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #22-26 - Stopping the Europe of Concentration Camps. Repatriation Regulation (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

With the new repatriation agreement, the European Union has written a 
new, shameful page in its history. The European Parliament and the 
Council of the Union have signed an agreement that is part of the 
broader European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, which entered into 
force two years ago and is now fully applicable. --- The new regulation 
was approved in Parliament with the votes of all right-wing forces: 
Popular Party (EPP), Conservatives (ECR), Patriots (EPP), and 
Sovereignists (ECR), plus-needless to say-some center-left MEPs.

What happened in the chamber immediately after the vote was chilling. 
From their seats, the fascists-with smug grins-chanted the vulgar 
slogan: "Send them back!" to celebrate this defeat of humanity.

There is no other way, in fact, to define the set of approved measures. 
With the aim of standardizing and tightening repatriation rules, the 
European Union is aiming to create "return hubs," detention centers 
built in third countries to deport expelled immigrants. By the explicit 
admission of the parliamentarians behind them, the idea is inspired by 
the model of the hotspots promoted by the Meloni government in Albania, 
a repressive experiment that is abhorrent from many perspectives, 
including legal ones.

EU member states will therefore be able to sign bilateral agreements 
with third countries to transfer those to be repatriated, even without 
ties to that country. This is a nightmare that could even engulf 
families with children, sent like parcels to internment camps in 
countries unknown to them. The only requirement is that the third 
country respect international human rights standards, but there is no 
obligation, for example, to adhere to the Geneva Convention on Refugees. 
These third countries will then have to establish agreements with the 
immigrants' countries of origin to organize their repatriation, but it 
is clear that this prospect is unlikely to be achievable.

Immigrants who do not cooperate with their own deportation will be 
punished with detention of up to thirty months. Two and a half years in 
a detention center for the sole crime of not having documents and 
wanting a better life.

Finally, the investigative powers of the competent authorities have been 
expanded: they include searches of homes, the seizure of personal 
effects, and the use of tracking devices.

Those who read Umanità Nova, or who have simply observed at least a 
little carefully how states have always managed migration flows, know 
well that administrative detention camps have been part of the 
repressive European universe for about thirty years. In Italy, they have 
changed names several times, but their substance has never changed. 
Today's repatriation centers are black holes in which civilization is 
drowning, human dumps used as a terrorist weapon against the victims of 
a legislative and bureaucratic system that represses irregularity while 
simultaneously sabotaging the channels and opportunities for 
regularization. A vicious cycle that is only apparently illogical 
because, in reality, it responds to specific economic and class-based 
needs of exploitation and blackmail.

What is changing from now on is the European Union's systematization of 
repression. While previously, each member state was somewhat free to 
interpret the general repressive stance of "Fortress Europe" and its 
borders in its own way, now we will move toward greater uniformity with 
the adoption of the European Return Order, a sort of single expulsion 
order that will be included in the Schengen Information System and will 
allow a European state to immediately execute an expulsion order already 
decided by another country. If we add to this the subcontracting of 
deportations to non-European countries, the picture is complete.

In light of all this, we can understand the satisfaction of European 
fascists, their obscene chants, and the arrogant impunity with which 
they feel free to spew forth their proclamations of "remigration" and 
other filthy things.

There's no consolation in realizing that we've always been right. Thirty 
years ago, the anarchist movement warned the public of the extreme 
danger of a political and cultural drift that, starting with the 
repression of so-called "illegal immigrants," would ultimately affect 
all the most vulnerable. Once again, immigrants remain the best 
scapegoat for building a consensus built on fear and resentment. Today, 
in a Europe of civil liberties (which, incidentally, we never believed 
in), mass deportations of foreigners are becoming a viable and proudly 
supported prospect, while individual states are adopting laws and 
measures that intensify repression and crack down on internal dissent.

Today, after thirty years of hate propaganda and a systematic war on the 
poor, we find fascism literally the order of the day.

As difficult as it may seem, there is no other way out: we must not give 
up, and indeed, we must relaunch the reasons for solidarity and freedom 
in every area of discussion, conflict, and struggle.

Alberto La Via

https://umanitanova.org/fermare-leuropa-dei-lager-regolamento-rimpatri/
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