The SOMICO (06 Migrant Support Collective) shapes its activity around a completely different logic: that of solidarity and the welcoming of migrants and refugees, the defense of everyone’s rights, and the respect of international texts that guarantee these rights, contrary to any demagogy and for a fairer, more supportive, and more humane world…
Under the impetus of the President of the Republic, a debate about immigration has been launched for several weeks. We ask the question: for what purpose?
Migratory flows concern only less than 3.5% of the world’s population; it is Europeans who migrate the most worldwide, whereas Europe hosts very modest migratory flows compared to other continents and regions of the world (90% of migrants move to a southern country, with the remaining 10% distributed among Europe, North America, and Japan); in the context of a violent and chaotic world, asylum claims are indeed increasing, but denials are also rising, and France (8th in proportion to its population) is far from being at the forefront of European countries in welcoming refugees. And when it asserts that the right to asylum is being abused, objectivity leads to the reaffirmation that it is becoming increasingly restricted.
The purpose of this biased and distorted debate becomes clearer: to prolong and amplify an unhealthy climate by playing on fear and suspicion of foreign individuals, their families, and their children.
In a context of economic crisis, unemployment, and job insecurity, and worsening inequalities, the President of the Republic dared to say: “The immigration we have welcomed for thirty years is not experienced or suffered by the elites, it is the working classes.”
Thus, immigration is once again presented demagogically as a negative and endured phenomenon, intertwining it with the working classes, precisely those missing from the electorate of La République En Marche.
The function of this debate on immigration is clear: under pressure from the far right, to divert the attention of the working classes, whose living conditions are deteriorating, to immigration, once again!
