Although the “more massive deportation in the history of America” is still far from reaching the dimensions promised by Donald Trump during the electoral campaign, it continues to spread through Europe. In the United Kingdom, Starmer hardens the access of foreigners to the country arguing without blinking that the country is becoming a island of strangerswhile Meloni continues with his plan to “transfer” immigrants to Albania, before the comprehensive gaze of Brussels, which instead of bluntly condemning expulsions is studying to facilitate the deportation of asylum applicants based on twisting the concept of “country of safe origin”.
Catalonia is not outside of this nationalist withdrawal that considers immigrant as an exogenous agent that denatures the host countries and prevents its greatness. Last week a session that is quite instructive about it took place in the Catalan Parliament. A motion of public spaces was discussed. The motion was so indigestible that it was condemned to failure from the beginning (among other occurrences said that the concentration of Muslims puts coexistence at risk and that “Islam is incompatible with western values”), but served to publicly show the way in which (Catalan and worldwide). His spokesman, David Saldoni, theatrically rejected the hatred that distils the motion, but kept the criterion of endorse To people (foreigners, get over) that occupy homes illegally.
At the time of the vote, Junts aligned with Socialists, Esquerra, Common and the CUP against the motion, but the Junts slip was perfectly recorded in the act of the session. If we compare the electoral program that the training presented two years ago with its most recent proposals, we can realize the effect that the surveys that predict the growth of Aliança Catalan at the expense of Juns. In 2023, Junts said that “it is necessary to recognize the positive contribution that religious communities make and promote dialogue and coexistence between different confessions” and that “the entire intervention of the administration in this area must be promoted in respect and guarantee of the right to religious freedom.” Now together shoot at the veil without entrusting any dialogue with any religious community or repairing the possible effect of the prohibition in the exercise of the right to religious freedom.
The “Fire Test”, saying Sílvia Orriols, will be soon. From the lectern of Parliament, the mayor of Ripoll announced her intention to bring to the municipal plenary a modification of the ordinances to ban the veil in the public classrooms of the municipality. That day we will know if the Puigdemont game has definitely thrown into Mount Trumpist.
