Migration Day: Stop racism, no people
Today is 18 December, International Migrants Day. I'll mark transcribing a story that appears in the Amnesty International report “Stop racism, no people”.
It reads: “J. is a Bolivian citizen, has 8 years in Spain and is regularized. On Friday 2 July 2010, at about 6.30 pm, a plainclothes police officer who was conducting an identity check your partner stopped, C. -Bolivia but also regulate- in the subway station Usera (Madrid) and asked for documentation. Approximately 8 that night, J, pregnant 5 months, received a phone call from a police. He said his partner was in the police station and asked Aluche to bring him the passport. He did, but when asked to talk to C. the police officers told him they could not. He waited until 2 in the morning and went home. The next day J. returned to the station and again told him he could not see his partner and return the next day (Saturday) on visiting hours. But when the Sabbath was going to the police, received a phone call from C. “I was crying, I said 'are sending me home'. J. went to the airport of Barajas and there a policeman told him he would be expelled. “I told the police:'I have to say goodbye'. He said, 'You see many American fJlms'.
J. says that although a year has passed since the expulsion of his partner has not been able to forget that day. “The police forget that. But for him and for me it is a trauma that will never forget. Now I am alone with my son. I keep looking for work but with a child is difficult. I can not get sick, For what I do with my child?”
There you have it. Migration Happy.
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