Refugees Welcome!.. Barcelona Migrants Prison Closed Down after Protests

The Spanish State has agreements with North African countries to  dump often undocumented people there, in exchange for small trade concessions, etc.

The handcuffed migrants are taken from the CIE internment centers or rounded up directly in police raids and flown handcuffed to countries where they may not even know the language.

The Government warns the company that wins the tender for the deportation of illegal aliens must “take adequate measures to ensure the confidentiality of the service”, in particular to avoid at all costs “spreading information to third parties “outside the airline,” unless it is strictly necessary for the service “.

The requirement for stealth reaches the point that the airline itself is prohibited from announcing its participation in the flights, unless authorized to confirm their experience to take part in similar bids for contracts of mass expulsion.

The award of the contracts are hidden under the euphemistic title of “air transport services to transport passengers between various parts of the country from there to other countries.”

The invitatiuon to bid for contracts reveals very little of the real intentions of the Ministry of Interior in the future policy of deportations. The destinations or number of flights are not listed, only that the administration is willing to pay between 9,000 and 22,000 euros per flight hour, depending on the capacity of the plane (between 75 and more than 200 seats).

Indeed, the secrecy of these flights deportation has triggered a barrage of criticism from organizations defending human rights and the collective of lawyers who have denounced that they only get to know of expulsions when they have already occurred and there is no administrative remedy so to stop the deportation of their clients.

In recent years, the practice of the Interior Ministry has been  chartering flights ‘on the fly’ to countries in Africa and South America to a lesser extent, depending on the specific agreements with the countries of origin. The so-called ‘macro-flights’ in police slang are filled with people of these internal nationalities in the centers for foreigners or are imprisoned days earlier in street raids. (From the diary of Navarre)