The PCP will request parliamentary hearings with ACT, SEF and Social Security on the situation of immigrants in Portugal, given the “inhuman reality” that prevails in the country.
The announcement was made by PCP MP Alma Rivera during a meeting on Monday with the leadership of Cáritas de Beja as part of the party’s parliamentary days, which ends on Tuesday in the Alentejo area.
Alma Rivera explained that the PCP intends to hear the Working Conditions Authority (ACT) before the Commission on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Safeguards because only “there is this level of exploitation and exploitation because there is a situation of using this labor.” it justifies.”
On the other hand, the Communist MP emphasized that the party also intends to listen to the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) and the Social Security Service, which are obliged to “respond from the point of view of organizations working on the ground.” and to have “responses to these situations of great need, great need, often great non-compliance and fragility”.
Alma Rivera described the situation in which immigrants live in Portugal as “an inhuman reality, often deceptive, leading people to believe that they will face certain conditions and then not.”
“Most of the time it has a criminal aspect and it needs to be dealt with, and if we all understand this, we all have an obligation to deal with this situation and promote safe, organized immigration, and it is the state that has a role to play and cannot continue to ignore the problem that has for all to see,” he said.
The PKP MP stated that in Portugal it is “necessary to fight against human trafficking” and “labor exploitation”, stressing that although there is a “seasonal need” for labor in the country, this “turns out to be a pretext for hundreds of workers who are completely unprotected and subjected to the greatest atrocities, from keeping their documents, for example, from withholding Social Security numbers.”
Speaking to reporters, Caritas de Beja President Arlindo de Oliveira said that immigrants from about 47 countries are arriving in the district, namely from Senegal, Brazil and “a very strong community of Asians, namely Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis.”
Overall, according to Arlindo de Oliveira, Caritas de Beja receives about “about a thousand people a year”, a number that remains stable compared to last year, but which, in terms of “the amount of aid, increases exponentially”.
The president of Cáritas de Beja notes that most of these services are related to “social, employment and food issues” that Cáritas has difficulty responding to as it has “no food to give”.
Zeka Soares from Timor-Leste is exactly one of the immigrants who went to Caritas de Beja on Wednesday evening to feed themselves: he arrived in Beja in June 2022, he already had three different jobs – picking apples, pears and olives. – and now, after the “problem with the authorities”, he is unemployed.
“Caritas is looking for work for everyone here, and then when Caritas finds a job, it will interview people so people can go to work,” he said.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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