A-Infos (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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