We're Charlie, not Abdul.
Miribilla, Bilbao, 10 January 2015, 16:30 hours. I am going to account for the demonstration in favour of the Basque prisoners for Argia and after parking the car I went into a coffee in a small bar. There are only three clients, two screaming, one man above all: “These outsiders come to live behind us, to live without working… as if we didn’t need it for us… What do they think… and devour us and devour us… When do we spy?”
I didn't make the cowboy role. Listen, take the coffee and go. I do not know if it was Intxaurraga, Fernández, Agirre or Lekue, but it was the words of Javier Maroto, thrown with the same brutality as he did. It is often heard, nothing new in that regard.
A few weeks later comes what's weirdest, on the nearest table and the closest people: “There are a lot of people in the street who think like this… who say that they are deceiving themselves… and we will open the doors to everyone who comes… or?... Will they all come?” The devil's advocate. I think.
They have previously been in Mexico, where a group of Basques has participated in a meal on the occasion of an Aberri Eguna (Fatherland Day). The owner of the house is rich. Would that always be the case? Even when their ancestors arrived? Did the ancestors of all those on the table go to “take away their own from their legs”? Would Hispanics who currently form the second population community in the United States be welcomed with flowers and perfumes for the steps at the southern borders?
Lie, Maroto! You know that, but you have obtained 41,000 signatures in the Basque Parliament to carry out the legislative initiative you are pushing forward. Hunting of votes. Immigration accounts for 6.9% of the CAV population (8.3% in Álava, 10.7% in Spain) and 40% of the Income Guarantee Income (IGR) is received by immigrants. Lanbide CEO Adolfo Alustiza said in February that the number of scams in the IGR is 0.3%. An error, for example, with regard to tax fraud of 20% of CAPV’s GDP (Trade Union of Technicians of the Ministry of Finance, 2013 data). Monetary: EUR 1.2 million of fraud in the GDR and EUR 13,560 million of annual tax fraud. Public money must be controlled to the last penny, but there are clearly issues of different importance.
Will all immigrants come to the CAV in the event of social assistance being distributed through the RGI? Lie again. Immigrants move to places where they work for them, which is why they have moved much more to different territories of Spain, where there are more jobs in construction, hospitality and agriculture. The IGR is the most prosperous social subsidy system in the State, but it has not had call effects, so there is no greater number of immigration into the CAV. In fact, the number is decreasing: Data from the Basque Immigration Observatory reflect a decline in the number of immigrants in 2012 and 2013 (almost 8,000 fewer immigrants in 2013).
But for Javier Maroto and pp the votes are more important than the dignity of people, everything serves to shake the flag of hatred, which is what he does with a campaign of 41,000 signatures. She is the parliamentarian of the pp, the pp has 10 parliamentarians, they can deal with as many legal proposals as they seem, but they prefer to take advantage of the possibility of the popular initiative in the Basque Parliament. Significant.
And now the General Representative of Álava of the PP, Javier de Andrés, has joined the crusade: the plague of the last decades of Álava not only of immigrants, but also of the Basque associations, is Bildu, Batasuna and something similar. De Andrés’ response to the well-known Basque journalist Michael More in a new chapter of the Nature Of Rerum de Berria, Morralla, has been unbeatable. “Are the people living in Álava the Alavesa population?” the journalist asked, “Yes, with exceptions...” “What are the exceptions?” “Those coming from the Maghreb, from Gipuzkoa and from Bizkaia,” the Member General concluded.
We Europeans are Charlie, but not Binata, Shengor, Abdul or Jaineba. What I do not know is how we are able to swallow what we have on the plate when the Mediterranean has devoured another 950 bodies before our eyes.
Bidali zure iritzi artikuluak iritzia@argia.eus helbide elektronikora
ARGIAk ez du zertan bat etorri artikuluen edukiarekin. Idatzien gehienezko luzera 4.500 karakterekoa da (espazioak barne). Idazkera aldetik gutxieneko zuzentasun bat beharrezkoa da: batetik, ARGIAk ezin du hartu zuzenketa sakona egiteko lanik; bestetik, egitekotan edukia nahi gabe aldatzeko arriskua dago. ARGIAk azaleko zuzenketak edo moldaketak egingo dizkie artikuluei, behar izanez gero.
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