Deportations and Refugees
Deportations and Refugees
The sole concept of deportation conflicts with the Basic Law and the Immigration Act.
About the absurdity of deportation, its contradictions, and why those in power like to talk about it so much.
This article is a guest contribution by Paul Neumann.
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Regarding the election party in Potsdam, some members of the AfD and Junge Alternative (JA) were filmed loudly singing “Hey, now it’s on, we deport them all, deport them all” to the tune of a popular song.
Anna Leisten, the young fascist of the JA, is holding up a sign with the inscription “Deport millions!” alongside a fellow party member – just a normal Friday evening at the AfD.
The bourgeois press is outraged: “Disgusting at the AfD election party!” (Bild), and former Green Party official Volker Beck files criminal charges for apparent incitement to hatred.
The AfD itself sees nothing inappropriate in it “at the moment” and simply justifies the behavior of the young fascists with “The Junge Alternative made a great contribution in the election campaign, so they can be forgiven for the song on election night” (Chrupalla).
Their little bit of incitement to hatred, so they say, is okay!
The outrage of the liberal intelligentsia seems to be caused by their own shame, because they cannot stand against the cause of the “mass deportation” itself, which they cannot oppose.
It was the representatives of the coalition parties who took away the last self-determination rights of refugees in the form of the “payment card“.
The “democratic” parties have decided to deport even back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan – a death sentence for many people whose ways of life are criminalized in Afghanistan.
The Green leadership has been calling for an acceleration of deportations for months, while the SPD, with Faeser, is responsible for the strictest political persecutions since the 1960s. Not to mention the FDP and CDU.
Everyone wants deportation; the outrage against the AfD is merely a shameful cover-up for their own policies, which at their core demand the same thing. The only difference between one policy and the other is the explicit statement of what is truly being demanded.
The liberal parties try to give a woke flair to their internal policies, somehow masking the actual cruelty; here, it is not “mass migrants” who should be deported, but “more clarity on issues that are not easy for us” (Greens), even if it means deporting to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Deportation is thus a consensus among all.
The so-called “progressive” parties are merely trying to rebrand their policies with a woke flair, but fundamentally, they demand the same: dehumanization and mass deportations, claiming it’s about “clarity” and “hard measures” (Greens), even when it means deporting to countries where human rights are systematically violated.
Deportation is therefore a consensus among everyone.
Baerbock, in view of Merz’s plan to no longer accept refugees from Afghanistan and Syria in the future, talks about “proposals that sound harsh but are not feasible because they violate Basic Law or European law), might be suitable for sensational headlines, but do not make our country any safer”.
The proposal to stop accepting refugees from countries where Western interests are responsible for the degradation of life is like setting the neighbor’s house on fire and then locking the door behind.
The scapegoat refugee
The loud yelling about deportations is a logical consequence of trying to shift the internal contradictions—such as poverty despite a wealthy state, decay of social infrastructure alongside top military spending, declining purchasing power amidst record profits of corporations, or the gap between the people and the ruling class—onto one group of people.
Poverty? Not a logical consequence of the escalating class conflict under capitalism—that’s the “expensive refugees.”
Criminality? Not a logical consequence of living in precarious conditions, where migrants are forced to do the dirty jobs for the benefit of corporations—that’s just the nature of refugees.
Refugee flight itself? Not a logical consequence of capitalist wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Ukraine—that’s just lazy refugees who want to rest on our social systems.
The refugee is the scapegoat for problems rooted in the nature of the capitalist system.
It is certainly a relief to think that all blame can be shifted onto this scapegoat—no matter how false the accusations—so that the status quo remains unchallenged.