{"id":181,"date":"2017-11-27T20:13:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/europeancommunion\/?p=181"},"modified":"2017-12-07T18:47:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T17:47:29","slug":"outrage-spanish-church-imprisonment-malaga-nearly-500-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/europeancommunion\/2017\/11\/outrage-spanish-church-imprisonment-malaga-nearly-500-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage in the Spanish Church Over the Imprisonment in M\u00e1laga of Nearly 500 Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a id=\"8elxWrCZQI5ZPHrtt0h9Cg\" class=\"gie-single decorated-link\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.es\/detail\/879411964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\nwindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'8elxWrCZQI5ZPHrtt0h9Cg',sig:'mbA7g26ZjFefgyUvozRYkjAOzR1b7Xg4arDSyJwkwEg=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'879411964',caption: true ,tld:'es',is360: false })});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIdentifying immigrants and refugees with criminals is enormously injust\u201d<\/strong>. This Monday noon that of the Spanish Bishops\u2019 Conference (CEE) became the latest voice to join in the chorus of outrage in the Spanish Church after the national government decided to imprison some 500 refugees, newly-arrived by boat, in Archidona prison, in M\u00e1laga, due to an alleged lack of space in the country\u2019s \u201crefugee internment centers\u201d (<em>Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros<\/em>, CIEs).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a press conference after the assembly of the Spanish bishops held last week in Madrid, the spokesman of the CEE, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Gil Tamayo, affirmed he could not do more than \u201cfully support\u201d the complaint lodged before the Ombudsman last week by Caritas that the decision to house the refugees in Archidona <strong>violates Spain\u2019s Foreigners\u2019 Act<\/strong>, which stipulates that \u201crefugee internment centres\u201d must not be of a correctional nature.<\/p>\n<p>Tamayo went even further, in fact, in his criticism of the Spanish government, reminding\u00a0the same that it has a duty to remember such <strong>\u201cprinciples of a Christian-inspired humanism\u201d<\/strong> as the rights of the human being and the protection of the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"d0U9kKPdRp9HqXQ8yTFLJQ\" class=\"gie-single decorated-link\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.es\/detail\/879411830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\nwindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'d0U9kKPdRp9HqXQ8yTFLJQ',sig:'oeKLQ-KlPVTSMY5ja_vGdE-vEKBKlKo6QUR1_SeH3r0=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'879411830',caption: true ,tld:'es',is360: false })});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>A \u201cjudicial aberration\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>Caritas, in its complaint lodged last week before the Ombudsman, lambasted the government for its decision to imprison the refugees in Archidona when it could have taken \u201cother decisions more respectful of the law\u2026 <strong>and of the human rights of the imprisoned people<\/strong>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>The local branch of the social services organization of the Catholic Church also lamented the \u201cmedia impact\u201d the scandal has already had, the result of which has been the shaping of a <strong>\u201ccommon mindset\u201d in which foreigners are \u201ccriminalized\u201d<\/strong>, even though they haven\u2019t committed any crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no good investing human and economic resources in the prevention of hate crimes and antidiscrimination policies\u201d, decried Caritas, \u201cwhen the flouting of the law [in the welcome to be given to refugees] is accompanied by <strong>public discourse that foments discrimination<\/strong>\u201c. Words of great fervor and impeccable logic that were seconded by a group of activist organisations, including the Christian Base Communities of Granada, that in a press release charged that the jailing of refugees in Archidona and other similar internment centers \u2013 \u201copaque arrangements that imprison people who haven\u2019t committed any crimes\u201d \u2013 \u00a0constitutes a <strong>\u201cjudicial aberration\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sentiments those of Caritas and the diverse activist organizations that were supported too this weekend by <strong>Fabio Baggio<\/strong>, the Subsecretary of Migrants and Refugees in the Vatican Dicastery for Human Development, in an interview with the Spanish news agency <em>Europa Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Catholic Church has always been very clear in terms of [the] administrative detention [of refugees]\u201d, said Baggio, \u201csaying \u2018no\u2019 to detention camps of any kind\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe support the campaign the Spanish Catholic Church is carrying forward such that these immigrants and refugees may be treated as human beings\u201d,\u00a0Baggio affirmed.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Fs4TY8J8RT1fhINl_FSB1g\" class=\"gie-single decorated-link\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.es\/detail\/879412158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\nwindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Fs4TY8J8RT1fhINl_FSB1g',sig:'fjzaD8oXX7pQPKBLR7WBuT-hUCZLWOAa4NBiu_jyKyw=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'879412158',caption: true ,tld:'es',is360: false })});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images \u201cIdentifying immigrants and refugees with criminals is enormously injust\u201d. 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