WORLD WORLDWIDE SPAIN News Journal Update - (en) Spaine: AGAINST THE CIES, AGAINST BORDERS AND THE WORLD THAT NEEDS THEM (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

What is a CIE? ---- The Foreigner Internment Centers (CIE) are prisons
for poor migrants. They are prisons in which people without legal
documentation are locked up, most, if not all, waiting to be deported to
their countries of origin. There does not even have to be a court
ruling, many inmates are there for administrative sanctions, on a
preventive basis. Political refugees, immigrants fleeing misery and
being hunted in racist raids... Thousands of people pass through the
dozens of CIEs each year throughout the state. Most Western democracies
have such centers under similar names. The CIE in the Spanish state
appear for the first time in the Spanish legal system with the approval
of Organic Law 7/1985 of July 1, on the Rights and Freedoms of
Foreigners in Spain.

What conditions do inmates endure?

The inmates in the different CIE of the Spanish state have reported
degrading treatment, insults, humiliation, physical and psychological
abuse, beatings and torture by the National Police and custodians of
these prisons... And to the same extent the conditions of overcrowding,
solitary confinement are denounced , confinement and submission to the
prison structure that goes through the reality of inmates waiting to be
repatriated handcuffed and put on a plane. To this we must add very
strong repression to the different forms of struggle that the inmates
have developed behind the walls in the face of these situations. These
experiences have been recorded in the thousands of testimonies of the
people who have passed through their cells, denounced and recognized
even by institutional organizations and NGOs. That there are voices from
these places, which we consider to be part of the framework of the
expulsion machinery of the states, and they put the issue of the CIEs on
the table, gives a good impression of the conditions of these dirty
prisons for migrants.

Why does capitalism need the CIES?

The CIE are part of an entire expulsion machinery governed by the states
at all levels, both at the local and European level, of persecution and
expulsion of the migrant population. This is part of the policies of
repression against the poor, with the state-capitalist system itself
generating the forced displacement of populations through poverty,
extractivism, exploitation, repression, death and wars. In a common
interest, State and Capital use these flows of migrant population to
provide cheap labor to entrepreneurs so that they can exploit them. This
being the only way that a migrant person has to survive: accepting his
submissive role in the metropolis as the lowest pillar on the ladder of
the exploitation pyramid, where apart from his exploited condition that
he can only accept, he verifies his strength of I work to survive, and
must also suffer social laws of persecution based on their place of
origin or skin color. And if not, CIE and deportation.

What interests and businesses are behind the CIEs?

There is no industry, institution or thing that escapes capitalism to
make a business of it. The CIE, and in general, everything that makes up
the machinery of racist and xenophobic expulsion from states, is a
business. Many companies obtain million-dollar income from the
construction and maintenance of CIEs, for example CLECE, in which the
largest shareholder is the businessman and president of Real Madrid,
Florentino Pérez. Another field from which they obtain benefits is the
development of technologies for border control (companies such as INDRA
and DRAGADOS), million-dollar contracts with private security companies
(such as European Security Fencing), concessions to airlines and travel
companies. on deportation flights (such as the million-dollar concession
in Spain with AirEuropa that recently changed to Airlines, Orbes and Air
Nostrum). An entire industry from which to profit from the death of poor
people at the borders. To this, we must add the millions allocated to
institutions such as FRONTEX and other surveillance projects at European
borders. According to some calculations, the global border security
market will exceed EUR50 billion in 2022.

What do a CIE, a juvenile center and a prison have in common?

The confinement. The bars. The walls. The wire fences. And, above all,
the condition of the vast majority of the population that is imprisoned
there: their poverty. These institutions, differentiated by some
focusing on a more specific profile such as childhood and early youth in
juvenile centers or migrants in an irregular situation in the CIE, are
the response of a social order that thus manages the inequality that it
harbors in its breast. The capitalist system has been generating a
population for centuries, which it reduces exponentially through various
institutions of confinement, as a way of managing the poverty and misery
that the system itself generates, and this is attested to by the crowded
confinement centers, whatever they are called, They feed on poor
migrants to exploit. Without forgetting all those who end up there for
rebelling against this system. The fight against CIEs is a fight that
houses within it the fight against all forms of prison as well as the
world and the society that tolerates and reproduces confinement against
its peers. A struggle that harbors hatred of the prison society and the
social war itself between rich and poor.

And the NGOs and the Church, what?

We do not like the idea of collaborating with the operation of these
prisons for migrants in any of their forms. Our fight is not about
improving the conditions and facilities of a damn prison, but rather
fighting for its immediate closure. Any circumstantial improvement that
may occur there must come from the struggle of the inmates themselves,
who do not need the paternalistic guardianship of an NGO or the Church,
which almost all will not hesitate to distance themselves from them if
their methods of struggle are considered by the Power as "violent" or
outside a protest that is considered "harmless" and consensual. They
need support networks abroad, solidarity support that starts from
complicity and equality and places us all as equals in the fight for a
common objective, from within and from outside the walls: the closure of
the CIEs, at any cost. whatever it costs and understanding any method of
struggle as legitimate.

What are politicians on both sides doing about the CIEs?

The periodic protests by inmates in the CIE or the reports that the
press occasionally airs on the inhumane conditions of the CIE make
leftist politicians, in their traditional opportunism, appear in
protests or in statements in the media against the evil CIE. Crocodile
tears: left-wing politicians are integrated into state institutions that
manage and administer racism and xenophobia: borders, immigration laws,
CIE and the commodification of human beings are managed by democracy in
its breadth and Left-wing politicians are part of this whole network.
The city councils of change, SUMAR, Podemos and other ilk control and
co-manage governments and institutions, the police that carry out racist
raids, deportation policies, agreements with countries like Morocco that
are responsible for repressing and persecuting migrants who cross their
routes. immigration, have the signature and complicity of all political
parties and institutions. The most classic right-wing and xenophobic
discourse is the other side of the coin of racism and xenophobia on the
left of the system. They are all tentacles of the same system and see a
world divided by nations and borders.

How can we push to close the CIEs?

There are many ways to fight against the CIE in particular, and the
racist expulsion machinery in general. Any initiative, without limits,
that is based on the desire to put an end to CIE is good. Support the
protests and riots of prisoners by going to the doors of these centers
when their inmates riot; pointing out and attacking the economic
interests behind the management of these centers; moving and activating
protests and active struggles in the neighborhoods against the CIE,
through direct action and solidarity, outside of institutions and
parties; not remain passive in the face of the racist raids that
devastate our neighborhoods, establishing networks and forms of struggle
and mutual support with all those who want to confront the borders and
the world that needs them without hesitation. In short, any act of
fighting against the system, the current social order and its various
tentacles is a way of attacking the heart of the beast, the cause and
origin of racism and xenophobia.

AGAINST BORDERS AND NATIONS
LET'S STOP THE DEPORTATIONS

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