Caritas has warned a "considerable increase" in police checks performed without notice at their places of care and assistance to the poorest, many of them illegal immigrants.
Up to one third of the 54 Diocesan Caritas distributed throughout the country have reported that, during 2010, the surprise visits or selective controls "of the Security Forces to centers, projects or services to identify people served has doubled.
services Reception and assistance of the social organization of the Catholic Church nearly 800,000 people attended in 2009, of which just over half were immigrants and a third of these (approximately 150,000 ) was in an irregular situation.
As reported by employees of the organization, requests for information on immigrants occur "once or twice a year" or even "once per quarter," although the Caritas centers of Las Palmas, Segorbe -Castellón and Mondoñedo-Ferrol claim a superior assiduity.
These are some of the data included in a report on "The social situation of immigrants accompanied by Caritas" in 2010 which was released Thursday by the secretary general of the organization, Sebastian Mora who has found the Caritas centers "should be safe places to which no one be afraid to go ".
is as detailed in the press conference, visits to school principals to apply for selective identification of people served , something that those responsible refuse Caritas "no court or commission of crime."
"If controls are selective and discriminatory only produce an adverse effect, both within the population native and the immigrant, "he warned Mora, for whom these practices coupled with a poor economic situation and the" hardening " political discourse produces a "clear risk of social fracture."
Two days ago, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination United Nations called on Spain to end up with identity checks based on "racial and ethnic profiling," which in practice, result in "random arrests" and "restriction of rights" of foreigners.
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