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20 years of migrant seclusion protests

On February 28th, it was commemorated the 20 years anniversary of the migrant seclusions that tried to fight against the immigration law that condemned hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to irregularity. From Sindillar, Norma Falconi read a text in the commemoration ceremony demanding the continuation of the Papers for Everyone campaign. Here you can read a snippet:

“20 years have passed but the reality is not static, and the governments of Spain take you off with one hand what they give you with the other hand. The immigration law has been reformed several times, not to improve migrant people’s living conditions but always with the objective of cutting down rights, and turning our bodies into bodies just to work. There are 800,000 people without papers in 2021. It has passes 15 years without any regularization, so” Papeles para Todos y Todas” campaign must continue fighting: In the seclusions and occupation in the Cathedral of Barcelona and Iglesia del Pi we rejected the content of the Immigration Regulations that would be implemented by the PSOE government with Zapatero at the head. This instrument requires having a one-year employment contract, certificates of penalties in the countries of origin, causing more defenselessness and increasing the underground economy. (…) “

Norma Falconi, Commemoration Act of Migrant Seclusions. Barcelona, February 28th, 2021.
If you want to read the complete discourse, access through this link.