On December 20, 2023, a political agreement towards a common migrationmanagement system in the European Union was reached by the EuropeanParliament and the Council after three years of negotiations. ---- Thisagreement concerns five essential proposals which should be finalizedbefore the European elections in June 2024. ---- As we could haveexpected, this standardization of asylum in EU countries will be done atdetrimental to respect for the most fundamental human rights. ---- Themain lines of this nauseating project, ---- The five proposals of thepact are to date as follows (this may change by February 2024):Regulation on screening of asylum seekers at EU borders.The country of arrival will be responsible for carrying out checks -taking fingerprints, photos, examining identity documents - to thendirect migrants towards a traditional or accelerated asylum applicationprocedure or reject their application. In the event of rejection,migrants will be returned to their country of origin (before having setfoot in an EU state) or a third country as quickly as possible. Theprocedure will concern all arrivals, including children aged 6 and over,only unaccompanied minors will be exempt.To ensure "reception" during this period of control which couldapparently last six days, the asylum and migration pact provides for thecreation of 30,000 additional accommodation places in "dedicatedreception centers"... It There will therefore be more detentions at theborders, including of children, in closed prison-type centers.During these six days of checks, officials will use the common "Eurodac"database, bringing together more reliable and more complete data thanthose in the file currently in use in French prefectures, to detectmovements of unauthorized migrants, but also possible supposedterrorists. Eurodac is a large-scale information system containing thefingerprints of applicants for asylum and subsidiary protection as wellas illegal immigrants who have entered EU territory at least once.As today, the Eurodac database contributes to the application of theDublin Convention on the processing of asylum applications. It makes itpossible to determine the European Union (EU) country responsible forexamining an application for asylum or subsidiary protection. When aparticipating country sends a set of fingerprints to Eurodac, itimmediately knows whether they match fingerprints that are already inthe database. In the event of a match, it often chooses (except inspecial cases) to send the person back to the first country where theyarrived or in which they submitted an application for asylum orsubsidiary protection. It is up to the authorities of that country tomake a decision on the applicant's right of residence. Please note thatbrothers and sisters will be excluded from family reunification. Ifthere is no match, the request is processed by the country thatsubmitted the fingerprints. Currently we are in the third version of theDublin Convention, called Dublin III, which should not be called intoquestion in this new pact, and it seems more effective... for themanagers of European States who will have more time (20 months) tomanage these "Dubliné.es".Asylum procedures will be faster, more efficient, as these EUtechnocrats and politicians say. If a migrant has escaped the so-calledDublin III procedure, they will be faced with the accelerated procedure(box 1). And it will not depend on what she may or may not have sufferedin her country of origin. Indeed, it all depends on your nationality!This rapid procedure will concern all nationals of countries for whichthe average rate of recognition of asylum seeker status in the EuropeanUnion is less than 20% (and up to 60-70% in a "crisis" situation, suchas that of 2015 at the time of the civil war in Syria)! As CIMADE says,in this case "requests will no longer be individualized and will beprocessed according to nationality, in violation of Article 3 of theGeneva Convention which expressly prohibits any discrimination based oncountry of origin in processing. asylum requests. The asylum applicationwill then be examined in a maximum of 12 weeks.The accelerated procedure in France currently in forceThis procedure exists and it is the French Office for Refugees andStateless Persons (OFPRA) which decides. It places the request in theaccelerated procedure if it is a request for re-examination (with newfacts) and if the person comes from a safe country of origin which...ensures respect for the principles of freedom, democracy and the rule oflaw, as well as human rights and fundamental freedoms (usual discourse).Currently there are 13 countries decided as safe by OFPRA and verifiedby the Council of State, many of which do not respect their ownminorities such as the Roma for example.Furthermore, the request may be placed in an accelerated procedure byOFPRA in one of the following cases:You use false documents or submit multiple requests under multipleidentitiesYou raise questions that are not relevant to your asylum applicationYou make inconsistent, contradictory or false statementsWithout valid reason, you entered or remained irregularly in France andsubmitted your application 90 days after your entry. This is the currentmain cause of placement in the accelerated procedure which affects manyminors who were waiting to reach the age of majority to submit theirasylum application.In all other cases, requests are placed under the so-called normalprocedure.The rules previously set out will be accompanied by a "compulsorysolidarity" mechanism, making it possible to better distribute thereception of asylum seekers between the countries of southern Europe(Italy, Greece, Spain, etc.) which concentrate arrivals, and others.According to this new regulation included in the pact, each year, 30,000asylum seekers will be subject to "relocation" to another EU countrywhile awaiting the study of their request. If a country opposes thisprinciple of solidarity, it will have to pay a fine of 20,000 euros perrefused asylum seeker.In the event of a migration crisis or force majeure, the pact willauthorize member states to largely exempt themselves from the right toasylum and opens the door to numerous potential violations of rightssuch as the principle of non-refoulement, recourse effective legalassistance, etc.Note that the definition of the new concept of instrumentalization ofmigrations can, in its current version, include NGOs, civil relief andrescue organizations at sea!Hotspots"The "hotspots approach" is one of the responses to what the EuropeanUnion called the "migrant crisis" of 2015. It consists of providingsupport from European agencies (mainly the European Support OfficeAsylum Matters (BEAA) and the Frontex agency) in areas located at theexternal borders of the EU and faced, in the words of the EuropeanCommission, with "disproportionate migratory pressures", to ensure thatall Migrants who enter European territory are identified, registered andtheir cases are treated according to their situation: treatment ofpeople eligible for asylum, return of others. The "hotspots approach"quickly resulted, in the two countries where it was deployed, Italy andGreece, by the creation of confinement centers - when they were notdetention centers. -, generators of violence, overcrowded andunder-equipped, where the sorting of arrivals is carried out in defianceof European and international rules regarding the reception of asylumseekers and the processing of their requests.»Claire Rodier, "The pretense of hotspots", Revue des Droits de l'Homme,13 | 2018, January 2018Some thoughtsThere is apparently almost nothing in this pact which directly concernsthe concept of outsourcing while Italy has just signed an agreement withAlbania which undertakes to recover on its territory migrantsintercepted in off the Italian coast (See CA of December 2023). But thisis only an appearance because, in this pact, mention is made of thirdcountries (safe of course!) which would welcome migrants expelled fromthe EU and which could a priori have links with this third country whichwould receive them. An example that sends chills down the spine is thatof Ivorians who were victims of racism when they passed through Tunisiabefore arriving in Europe. Refused in the EU, they risk being sentback... to Tunisia without being asked for their opinion. In fact, whatis very worrying is that outsourcing will one day be integrated into theasylum procedure in the EU; even if, even today, non-refoulement isstill provided for in the functioning of the EU, expellees can choosethe country which will welcome them (with its agreement!) if theircountry of origin of which they have the nationality does not suit them.The most important point is certainly the generalization of the hotspotapproach which currently exists in Greece and Italy (see box 2). This islogical, since the aim of this pact is to sort migrants at the EUborders before they settle in a European state. We will therefore seethe opening of detention centers where human beings will be sorted,which will necessarily involve violations of rights, violence,exclusions and sidelining.The obsession of migration and asylum managers is always the distinctionbetween refugees and economic migrants, that is to say between real andfalse asylum seekers. Let us remember here that this distinction is afantasy! It is all the more a scandal since most European states haveand will need labor in all areas. The case of Italy is emblematic.Giorgia Meloni, who was elected, among other things, on the promise ofstopping illegal immigration, has an urgent need for labor immigrationto serve the interests of employers and thus promises a residence permitto 450,000 foreign people in the three years. This may appear to be acontradiction which will, over time, be generalizable to many Europeanstates including France where we could see Marine Le Pen doing the samething as Meloni! In fact, European states want to choose their workforceat all levels of the social pyramid and give residence permits tomigrants while they are exploited before being expelled.The Mediterranean is the deadliest migratory route in the world. From2014 to September 2023, the number of deaths is estimated at more than28,000 people! If the EU really wanted to solve this problem as well asthat of "smugglers", it should logically give these people who fleetheir country access to legal travel routes such as access to visas! Weare very far from it! Freedom of movement and installation are the onlydemands to put forward if we really want these humanitarian disasters tostop!Global Commemor'action callFebruary 6, 2024 - Tenth anniversary - Their life, our light. Theirdestiny, our anger. Open the borders!It has been almost 10 years since the Tarajal massacre took place. OnFebruary 6, 2014, more than 200 people, leaving from the Moroccan coast,tried to swim to Tarajal beach, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Toprevent them from arriving in Spain, the Guardia Civil and the Moroccansoldiers present used violence and did not come to the aid of the peoplewho were drowning in front of them (1). Since then, the number of deadand missing has continued to increase, in the Mediterranean and on theCanary Islands route, within the internal borders of the EU, in theEnglish Channel, on the eastern borders, along the route of Balkans, andagain in the Sahara Desert and along any other mobility trajectory.On the sad anniversary of the Tarajal massacre, we relay GlobalCommemoraction's call for the World Day to Fight the Regime of Death atBorders and to demand truth, justice and reparation for victims ofmigration and their families on February 6, 2024.In a context of racist and repressive escalation, while the Frenchgovernment is preparing to promulgate the "law of shame" and theEuropean Parliament to vote on a Pact just as unworthy and dangerous forpeople in migration, we call for a time of Commemor'Action.Mobilizations will take place in several cities in FranceMigrate to live, not to die! They are people, not numbers!Freedom of movement for all!https://missingattheborders.org/news1- Other dozens of migrants were massacred by Moroccan and Spanishpolice and soldiers on June 24, 2022 in Melilla, a Spanish enclave onthe border with Morocco.The first consequences of this pactThe application of this pact will have consequences in asylum requestsin France. Will they still be able to be done in the prefecture inone-stop shops? Where will they put their human sorting centers,necessarily close to the French borders? In the Pyrenees? the Alps? onthe northern and eastern borders? What is certain is that Europe'sinternal and external borders will be increasingly militarized.Denis, January 6Withdrawal of the Immigration law!On January 25, the Constitutional Council censored 40% of theimmigration law, among the most discriminatory articles validated by thepresidential majority. But the reasons for removing these articles are,for the most part, purely formal; these could be taken up in future texts.What remains of this law remains deeply stigmatizing and liberticidal:an anti-immigrant and anti-worker law, which attacks the mostprecarious. It violates fundamental rights, it will greatly facilitatethe conditions of expulsions, it will make the reception of refugeesmore precarious and the living conditions not only of undocumentedimmigrants, but of all people of origin more difficult. foreign.The mobilization must continue to demand the total withdrawal of this law.A new national day of protests is called February 3, 2024.source: The solidarity marchhttp://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article4070_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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