Overt Racism in developed Nations

international | crime and justice | opinion/analysis Monday August 20, 2007 15:39 by Anti-Racist

How neo-liberalism splits families

Last week we all watched as the titular head of the Irish justice Department actively
deported a six year old autistic boy, along with his twin sister and his mother. They
were put on a commercial flight to Lagos, late at night and given enough cash for
an hotel. In the last day a Mexican woman who had sought refuge for 12 months
in a church and had become the voice of economic migrants and illegals in the
US was picked up and deported to Tijuana, leaving behind her, her eight year old
boy Saul.

Elvira Arellano has vowed to continue her fight from the other side of the border.
If we look at the newswire the overwhelming amount of these cases have involved
women and children. No surprises there, they are slower and easier to catch.

The Protection of Minorities- a Democratic Imperative?

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83836
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83553
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82634
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79003
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78912
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79263

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/latest/story/0,,-686253....html , (Elvira's Story).

Children must be fed.
They need company and peers.
They must be educated.
They require medical care for minor childhood infections.
Oftentimes this means that mothers and children are caught and deported together
or separated. The rules that govern us and our emphasis on family both here and in
the US sees the family as an economic unit and does not raise the status of the
woman to individual ,nor a vulnerable child to individual.

Mr Lenihan has abdicated his care to Great through his refusal to query the overt
racist policies of his pre-decessor. the EU enforced the rules of protection in Ireland
in 2006.

The Asylum Qualification Directive allows Greats family to achieve the required
protection and education for their child and yet it was only introduced by Mc Dowell
in the eleventh hour
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79003 .

Both economies of the US and Ireland have for too long operated a knowing racism
that mitigates directly against women and children who require the protection of law.