Italy, migrants complain about the bad conditions of detention

Saturday morning, Italy, Lampedusa island

About 700 illegal immigrants had broken out of the detention centre and were staging protest in town. They were complaining about the bad living conditions of the centre which is normally built to contain 850 persons but which actually grants 1,800 immigrants. Some of them had had to sleep outside because of the lack of place. The immigrants as well as the local residents also complain about the government's plans to open a new centre for Identification and Expulsion. The local residents fear "it would become a sort of prison".
Before, the landing immigrants asking for asylum were sent to the Italian mainland, but now, according to a new policy, they are kept on the island and if they don't pass the immigration checks, are sent back to their country.
In 2008, 31,700 immigrants have landed on the island (increase of 75% from 2007). They often escape from poverty and armed conflicts in Somalia or Eritrea.

Immigration is an important issue. A lot of people are fleeing overseas to escape from poverty or wars, and according to me, you can't just send them back to a certain death. It's morally inacepatble. On the other hand, I can understand that it's complicated for governments to grant everybody because the country would be overcrowed and it would lead to bad living conditions. What I'm saying here are big "clichés" in a certain way and this issue needs more details. I don't have the solution about the immigration problem, although I think if the "big powers" helped more to end conflicts (and corrupted governments) as well as economically speaking the countries of origin, people would not be willing to leave them. Indeed, it's a big and difficult task, but I think it would be possible in a certain mesure (by stopping selling weapons for example).
But to go back to the article, human rights should be respected and so good living conditions should be reached even in a detention centre. For the moment I think other centres should be built (but in another way than Italian government is doing now for example because even local residents fear it would become a sort of prison), maybe in association with "ONG" if the government alone can't afford the cost. I don't have a lot of informations or ideas about it, but that's a subject I'm going to treat (PEJ 2009), so I would complete my analysis once I returned from this manifestation.

India wants to protect itself from Pakistan, and Mr Brown fears a terrorist attack in his own country

India and Pakistan are closely linked to England : one belongs to the Commonwealth and the other is the motherland of the main community of immigrated people. However, after the Mumbay terrorist attack the 26th of November, the relations became very tensed, as police services had found a Pakistani membership of the attack after Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab, a Pakistani millitant who belongs to Lashkar-e-Taiba, had been captured. As Pakistan is neighbour to India, tensions arose rapidly. In fact, India refuses to acknowledge that the attack was only led by terrorist groups, and accuses directly its neighbour, which claims that it didn't have any link with this tragedy. But, it is good to precise that this quarrel already existed even before.

Thus, Prime Minister Gordon Brown flew to Pakistan and India to discuss about the situation with his homolgues. In fact, he gave £6 millions to Asif Ali Zardari (Pakistan's president) according to help the developpement of security in the country. Finally, we can say that the terror takes root there, and the need to secure is urgent, as it could end up with a war between Pakistan and India if the quarrel would reach an higher point...England is also worried about that, as the police service has under surveillance around 30 potential terrorist leaders and 2000 other suspects, all Pakistanies....

The terrorist attack of Mumbai could change England's immigration policy, as it could regulate exchanges and travels between Britain and Pakistan, according to have a better control of the situation and to guarantee security of both, and also India. It could be a translation of a real decrease of trust and thus, of economic exchanges. But, as India belongs to the Commonwealth, it cannot be a partner to left appart, on the contrary, England should secure Pakistan and seek for other terrorists in its own country to restablish relationships and calm down the tensions, and avoid a war, which could end up with nuclear bombs, as both India and Pakistan have it. The attack is an example of a growing terrorist network, as leaders now use different means to provide informations, and also, a better organization, as simple solidiers are trained in real camps, with recent weapons and new strategies (civil war strategy used in Irak and Afganisthan). It is a sign that this threat is ready to, maybe (but with a firm possibility), raise a veritable army and a very well developped network.

NB : It is also good to say that, few days after the attack, medias (especially in France) hid the fact that it was of Islamic nature...

Le début d'une crise Mexicaine.

La crise financière qui a débuté aux Etats-Unis affecte désormais leur voisin, le Mexique. En effet, la hausse du chômage américain touche de nombreux immigrés mexicains, qui se voient alors contraints de retourner dans leur pays.

Selon "L'Institut des Mexicains à l'extérieur", plus de 600 000 émigrés mexicains aux Etats-Unis vont retourner au Mexique entre novembre et décembre, et peut-être plus de 900 000 à partir de janvier (chiffres contestés par L'institut national de migration). Sur les 12 millions d'émigrés mexicains aux Etats-unis, c'est donc pratiquement 10% d'entre eux qui retourneraient dans leur pays natal...

Mis à part le retour de nombreux émigrés, le Mexique va aussi faire face à un autre problème: en effet, les transferts d'argent des émigrés, qui sont la seconde source de devises du Mexique (environ 17.5 milliards de dollars de janvier à septembre 2008), vont aussi être affectés. Les Mexicains ayant perdu leurs emplois (plus d'un million) ne pourront plus faire parvenir de l'argent au pays, dont ces sommes font vivre un cinquième de sa population...

Suivant la tendance mondiale actuelle, le gouvernement Mexicain va mettre en place un plan d'environ 32 milliards de dollars pour soutenir l'emploi. De plus, pour faire face aux futures demandes d'emploi, le gourvenement compte sur le programme "Trois pour un", crée en 2002, où il fournit 3 dollars pour financer des entreprises à chaque dollar envoyé des Etats-Unis.

Nous pouvons retirer de cet article le fait que ,premièrement, le Mexique (14ème puissance mondiale) est toujours trop dépendant de son voisin Américain, et qu'une chute des USA entraîne systématiquement la chute du Mexique. Cet article nous montre aussi (une nouvelle fois) l'étendue mondiale et diversifiée de la crise financière qui a démarée en 2007. Il faut désormais espérer que le gouvernement Mexicain saura faire face à tous ses problèmes et que le Mexique ne tombera pas dans une grande crise financière tel qu'en 1995 car cette fois-ci, les USA ne seront pas là pour l'aider.

Liens:

   - Crise économique de 1995

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