Deportation: a policy that leads to despair

Josiane Nardi died after setting herself on fire, in front of the press, on October 18 in front of the prison in Le Mans, as a protest against the decision to deport her partner, currently held in the prison, to Armenia. This desperate gesture comes as a response to government brutality founded on the "quota policy", which continues to claim more expulsions and permanently criminalises immigration. [Français]

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Deportation: a policy that leads to despair

Josiane Nardi died after setting herself on fire, in front of the press, on October 18 in front of the prison in Le Mans, as a protest against the decision to deport her partner, currently held in the prison, to Armenia. This desperate gesture comes as a response to government brutality founded on the "quota policy", which continues to claim more expulsions and permanently criminalises immigration. Between this self-immolation, the recent death of a person wanting to escape a raid by jumping out of a window, the various suicides in detention centres and the hundreds of migrants who have died on Europe's borders, responsibility for all this lies squarely with the powers.

Who benefits from anti-immigrant laws, regulations and agreements?

• The bosses, who use them to introduce increasing casualization of labour and lower wages.
• The ruling class, which divides the workers into Europeans and non-Europeans in order to rule more easily.

The response to this policy must be solidarity among all workers, legal or otherwise.

For this reason, we support:

• free circulation and residence both in Europe and on an international level;
• struggles to regularize all sans-papiers;
• the closure and destruction of all detention centres;
• the suppression of the Department of Raids and Deportations*;
• the egalitarian and self-managed redistribution of wealth on a global level, requiring the abolition of capitalism.

Alternative Libertaire

22 October 2008

Translation by FdCA-International relations office

* Translator note: An ironic nickname for the Department of Immigration.