It is humanly unacceptable. For a moment let us look at the faces of despair, the traces of pain revealed by the images on the border between Poland and Belarus. They are children and adults who reveal to us the anguish of live without horizon, persecuted and harassed again when they thought that violence was beginning to be left behind. Victims of deception and betrayal, they have lost their capital, economic and human, to be trapped in limbo between a country that despises them and one Europe insensitive to suffering. The fear, the same that generated the influx of Syrian refugees in 2015, returns to the line where the Union begins. Lithuania and Poland close borders and they deny access to aid organizations. The concertinas and speeches that speak of a apocalyptic threatAlthough now those who are on the other side of that line would not fill a sports hall if we put them together. Have we learned anything?
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Let’s look at those faces that emerge from the polar mist and see the suffering in each one of them, to ask what we would not do if they were our children, our parents or siblings. What is the risk of a worthy human response, before reinstalling barbed wire? Serving those few thousand people with a minimum of dignity should be the priority, before launching ourselves to finance the wall that a xenophobic government demands in Warsaw. Let’s stop focusing on abject Belarusian president, Alexsándr Lukashenko and his Russian partner, Vladimir Putin. They threaten something as vile as the human trafficking, something similar to what they do from the south of Morocco, Libya or Turkey. Without a common legal framework of possibilities, immigration will remain the most vulnerable point for those who want to provoke Europe. But leaving thousands of people unable to move forward or backward, enslaved in limbo, is humanly unacceptable and the responsibility is not only on the one who provokes, but also on who responds with an unworthy border.
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