They will merit equal punishment those who attempt to help a foreigner who takes advantage of him and exploited him. At least this emerges from the preliminary draft amendment of the Aliens Act in Spain. We live in a rejection of the immigrant neurosis, as if we had not been migrants for centuries. Can the history of the American continent without the host to millions of Europeans who, for economic or political, reasons sought a land of welcome to start a new life you imagine? The most powerful European countries built its industrial revolution and its model of development, thanks to the raw materials and labour force of countries and peoples of Africa, Latin America, Australia, and countless of Asia. Do they have European countries reach the levels of wealth, education and welfare without exploitation of the riches of colonies in other continents? Then, we have a duty to repair, restitution of the stolen and share acquired with the profits suffered.
The immigrants do not do more than return visits we have made them for centuries. They already know the path that we aramos on their backs and on their lands. But when they arrived times of hunger, posguerras, unemployed workers and the horrors of the totalitarian ideological, well that we ask for asylum on the same lands that had exploded. And we were welcomed without qualifying us without papers or catalogued us as illegal. A human being can be illegal?, asks Juan Goytisolo on conscientious objection. That is the attitude that up to us, citizens of the world, to unjust laws, by inhuman, even if they are legal. There were also legal fields of Nazi and Soviet concentration, the Holy Inquisition, the death penalty, torture, racial discrimination, of gender and ideological, reaching the pinnacle of slavery legal in many States until little more than one century ago.