The immigrant collective of Intersindical Canaria has shown solidarity with José Morales, who has been opened an expulsion file from the country after an altercation with a national police officer during a demonstration in favor of the Sahara. Thus, they have requested that "the agent be investigated and sanctioned", since they consider that he has generated this "lamentable" situation "abusing his authority".
"It is a sad reality that the approach that legislation has on immigration matters, both at a European level and within the Spanish State, is fundamentally repressive and prioritizes the control and persecution of foreign people before social integration", this association has stated through a statement, where it also wanted to highlight that it is acting "based on intolerance and fear of difference".
For this group, the attitude of the national police officer, who drew a gun during this concentration after being rebuked and after several people "pounced" on him, according to the police report, was "scandalous and from every point of view intolerable". "It cannot be that a person who has lived for 10 years on the island and who is fully integrated into that society, runs the risk of being expelled for the simple fact of opposing the irrationality of a police officer dressed in civilian clothes and without identifying himself, who photographed minors and threatened by showing a gun in a peaceful concentration", this association of immigrants from Intersindical Canaria has stated.
And, the group believes that in the action against José Morales, of Uruguayan origin, "the current legislation on immigration matters has been used as an element of repression and intimidation of social protest". "It is clear that the vision that those in power have of us immigrants is that of cheap labor, demanded in times of economic boom, but attacked and expendable in times of lean times", the association has denounced.
In this sense, it has assured that from this perspective based on "pure xenophobia" those who come "from other latitudes" are seen "with bad eyes" and that far from accepting "silently what they have to, they are actively involved in the social struggles of the host society and in solidarity with other peoples of the world". "This and nothing more is what José Morales has done, exercising a right and not, as they accuse him, infringing any legislation", he pointed out.
From the immigrant collective of Intersindical Canaria they wanted to show solidarity with José Morales and his family and have demanded the cessation of "this judicial persecution of clearly fascist overtones". In addition, they have claimed the right "not only to be part of this society but also to the rebellion of fighting to transform it". In this sense, they have highlighted their battle for "greater social justice and inclusion".