WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update (en) France, UCL - Loi Darmanin: the sinister racist and colonial grub of the first cop in France (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The bill "to control immigration" debated in rapid procedure in Parliament can be

summed up in a few words: criminalization of foreigners, radicalization of the
practices of the prefectures, utilitarian vision of exiles. Nothing is good in
this project which only reinforces a systemic racism which reeks of the abject
stench of the colonial periods. The State fully assumes a racist, security and
population control policy. CRIMINALIZATION AND RADICALIZATION OF PREFECTORAL
PRACTICES. The Minister of the Interior clearly says that the prefects will be
responsible for "making impossible" the lives of foreigners, which is nothing
new: the defenders of exiles know how much the prefectures have been organizing
for a long time this policy. Some of these defenders, for fear of angering the
state (?), spoke of "dysfunction". This bill shows us that there is no
dysfunction but the application of an ignoble political project.

In this text, it would be a question of effectively implementing the OQTFs
(obligation to leave French territory) by systematically linking them to IRTFs
(prohibition of re-entry to French territory). The assimilation between
foreigners and delinquency is recurrent in this text of law and in the words of
the minister, clearly taking up the discourse of the far right! Thus, foreigners
under OQTF will have to be systematically registered on "the file of wanted
persons" making the OQTF a criminal sanction whereas for the moment it is "only"
an administrative sanction. The Minister even suggests a "stay policy"! Beneath
this hazy statement, what is he thinking? A return to the colonial practices of
France in the 1930s, with the North African Brigade responsible for controlling
foreigners on metropolitan territory, a distant ancestor of the BAC...

With this law, it is the hunt for migrants that is open with a multiplication of
facies checks. It is a way to pressure, control and monitor any population that
does not fall under the "white" criteria. This is confirmed with the "respect for
the values of the Republic", that is to say "personal freedom, freedom of
expression and conscience, equality between women and men, the dignity of human
person, the motto and the symbols of the Republic". Coming from a government that
does nothing about equality, whose members are accused of gender-based and sexual
violence and for whom human dignity is the last concern, we could laugh if the
consequences were not so tragic for foreigners!

It is also the arbitrary power of the prefects already in place with their
"discretionary power". This security policy will be reinforced with the taking of
fingerprints and photographs by the police and the gendarmerie without the
consent of the person concerned and which may even be done "under duress". Given
the already well-established reputation of the police for their sensitivity to
"human dignity", this law announces even more police violence covered up by the
authorities! And that's not counting the expansion and construction of new
administrative detention centers (CRA) where violence and abuse are increasing
away from the cameras.

France, which already respected international conventions on migrants only
half-heartedly, ended up sitting on them! Thus, the Council of Ministers
specifies that expulsions will be facilitated for delinquent foreigners, even in
good standing, and "the removal of foreigners in an irregular situation who
constitute a serious threat to public order", even if they have family ties in
France in both cases! However, for the prefectures, a threat to public order
begins as soon as papers are supposedly false! The law calls into question the
right to asylum, the reception of victims of violence, including children. It
reinforces the non-respect of the presumption of minority, allows the separation
of children from their parents...

A RACIST LAW AT THE SERVICE OF CAPITALISM
This state racism, which does not want to say its name, also serves as a
legitimization for the division of the labor market. When the Minister says that
we must "be nice to the good guys and mean to the bad guys" and that he is going
to regularize some workers in shortage occupations, make no mistake about it:
according to this law, there is no there are only "bad guys". It is a question of
assigning populations to professions that no one wants because the wages and
working conditions are appalling. This overexploitation of racialized populations
and their assignment to certain trades is not new: it is the return of colonial
practices! If, unfortunately, this is not new, the government is bringing the
practice into law! Moreover, this new residence permit, from 1 to 4 years, does
not guarantee anything to foreigners since they will always have the sword of
Damocles of the OQTF on their head if the job ends up being no longer in tension!
The Darmanin law responds well to the interests of capitalism by sorting out the
populations to affirm that a part will have neither the same rights nor the same
freedoms. This is discrimination!

The law also provides for a "talent" residence permit to bring in doctors,
nurses... This is a large-scale looting capitalism. On the one hand, poor
countries having to undergo the policies of the IMF which impose the
privatization of public services and push part of the hospital staff into the
street. On the other hand, in rich countries, quota policies on these professions
to better attract "talent" from the South by paying them less than a "talent"
from the North. These "talents" will even be able to bring their family, which is
not intended for a baker, not considered a "talent".

The Minister also announces with his law that he will abolish all social
assistance to foreigners who are not in a regular situation. But it already is!
By such declarations based on the prejudice that foreigners would come to France
to benefit from aid, it serves the same soup as the far right and the right. This
is only a strategy to better make his despicable project accepted by the
population! There is only state medical aid (AME) from which people in an
irregular situation can benefit, but the senatorial right has just abolished it
without any shame...

Finally, this law and the racist practices of the state also offer an answer to
the crises of capitalism. Indeed, the survival of the latter passes for the
ruling class by a division of the working world. This state racism, the
prejudices and stereotypes conveyed by the political class and many media are
intended to divert the "poor whites" against the "even poorer racialized". These
policies aim to avoid a confrontation with employers and their support, the
state. Beyond this division, there is also a national identity vision building a
homogeneous white "people" based on an idealized history going beyond the class
struggle, opposing an "unassimilable" population presented as an internal enemy.
This law, and many others, contributes to the fascisation of our society.

All in fight on March 25 against the Darmanin Law!

Libertarian Communist Union, March 18, 2023.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Loi-Darmanin-la-sinistre-tambouille-raciste-et-coloniale-du-premier-flic-de
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