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We live in a time when we are new nomads . More and more young people today are moving on the badumption that their entry into adult life becomes richer by knowing other countries and cultures. But there are also others, those who in this world of snapshots, put their hopes for a better life on a fragile ship or the fast pbadage of one. border at midnight . Search for life and the world;
Therefore, migration can only be understood as a right and ancestral conquest . And it is from there, seeing the migratory tragedies of today, that we feel rebellion and rejection.
Did Europe forget that she grew up in the nineteenth century, expelling work that she could not feed or those who left for political or religious reasons? Or do the United States not want to remember that they owe much of their growth precisely to immigration?
It was remarkable that the society of this country to welcome and badimilate Irish, European and now Latin American and Asian cultures. Let us add those who came from Africa as slaves and whose emancipation in a feat that exalts the United States
For us, in Latin America, immigration is a reality founder of our republics . In Argentina, Uruguay or Chile is a defining reference in being national. A century and a half ago, immigrants from different countries of Europe started arriving. Some sought a better life but many came fleeing European conflicts
In this old image Foreign families arriving in Argentina
As the historical archives say, there were Spaniards and Italians belonging to the internationalist movements of the workers. Others were exiled from Germany by a 1878 decree of Bismarck, which banned socialism and also from Spain those who were fleeing the Third Carlist War. At the junction of the twentieth century, these waves of immigrants were millions. They came from Poland, Ukraine, Palestine, the Ottoman Empire that was dying, many places.
It is calculated, according to the General Directorate of Migrations of Argentina, that by 2015 immigrants exceeded 2 million . Chile has not been unaware of this flow from abroad. The years of economic growth and political stability have made Chile an attractive country for international migration: today, they represent 2.7% of the population, which represents more than half a million people. people, 70% of whom come from South America
Why do you remember these numbers and realities, so ours? Because they tell us that we are carrying a more than 100-year-old consciousness of migration and its meanings in the future of our societies. And it is from here that our conviction is born of actions promoted by President Trump or by governments like Malta and Italy in the Mediterranean migration crisis.
Since mid-April, the Trump government began to enforce its "zero tolerance" policy at the border while the US Attorney General decided imprison, not only to detain any person entered the United States without papers, accusing them of a crime ( felony ) instead of a misdemeanor, and for which his spell is a federal prison.
The cover of Time magazine that went around the world, where President Donald Trumps is seen watching an immigrant.
When you go there, and not in a detention center, the person imprisoned can not be accompanied by his minor children . The effects were brutal. As in the case of the Mexicans, the immediate expulsion is followed, this policy fell with all its hardness on the Central Americans
Although Trump revoked this policy – in the middle of a barrage of criticism -, reports of a "chaotic" situation rain when asked where the kids are and how they will meet their families.
Trump's policy is inhuman and therefore his universal rejection, beyond the legality that supposedly supports it. This occurred almost at the same time that the United States Ambbadador to the United Nations announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Human Rights Commission of this international organization [19659021]. A few weeks ago, we witnessed almost the refusal of Malta and Italy to receive the Aquarius fleet with over 600 African immigrants rescued from the waves. We have seen the right populist hand which now governs Italy
After a week adrift, the Spanish government finally welcomed them. But the question is more substantive and, as presidents Macron and Sanchez said at their first Franco-Spanish meeting, the responsibility is for all of Europe and not just for the southern countries. migrants, out of the 600 who traveled on the Aquarius boat, receive food, before arriving at the port of Valencia, Spain, on June 17 (with permission from SOS Mediterranean) ” observer=”” data-observer-function=”loadLazyImg”/> A group of migrants, out of the 600 who traveled the ship Aquarius, receive food, before arriving at the port of Valencia, Spain, on June 17 (with permission from SOS Mediterranean)
