The Church body recognizes that the ideal would be not to have to emigrate “to overcome poverty”, but considers it a “reason for patriotic pride” that there are immigrants who want to live in Portugal, and a “reason for shame” that there are those who feel “hostilized” here.
According to the data released by Aima, the number of foreigners in Portugal has increased to one million. According to the report, in the last year 2023, the number of immigrants has increased by 33.6% compared to 2022. The largest number of immigrants living in Portugal are Brazilians.
The BE coordinator today accused the PSD/CDS-PP Government of having created an “institutionalized mafia” that prevents the regularization of immigrants and considered that the executive has the responsibility to finance the associations that help these citizens.
The Judicial Police arrested on Thursday the suspect of two crimes of attempted murder and two crimes of discrimination and incitement to hatred in Porto.
The attacks on immigrants in the city of Porto this week are worrying academics linked to the issue of migration, who criticize the actions of the media and politicians who dehumanize those who arrive in Portugal.
The North American non-governmental organization (NGO) Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), which monitors the activities of the so-called extreme right around the world, identified more than ten Portuguese people, including politicians, lawyers, former judges and academics as headliners at conferences held in Europe between 2000 and 2024 .
The Deputy Secretary of State for the Presidency, Rui Armindo Freitas, reports, in an interview with TSF and Diário de Notícias, that, three months after the end of the expressions of interest, results are already being seen.
The Government says that immigration in Portugal is decreasing and that a reduction in the migratory flow throughout the country is already evident.
More than 1,300 people, supported by around 100 collectives, have signed a public letter addressed to various political figures and institutions in Portugal, calling for concrete actions to stop the growing hate speech against immigrants.
Asks the police and justice system to act with “speed and rigor”
SOS Racismo on Thursday called on political decision-makers to take a “clear and responsible” position to prevent and combat xenophobic violence, and on the police and justice system to act with “speed and rigor” against those who attack migrant citizens.
Researcher Catarina Reis de Oliveira, from the Migration Observatory, today called for greater efforts from authorities to demystify stereotypes associated with immigrants and “combat these false perceptions” that stigmatize them.
In a week in which attacks on immigrants in Porto are in the news, Catarina Reis de Oliveira highlighted that “statistical evidence” does not link immigrants with crime and that Portugal does not have a high number of foreign citizens compared to the European average.
Suspect, 26 years old, attacked two people in the same morning at different times.
A 26-year-old man was arrested by the Judicial Police (PJ), in the early hours of this Thursday, in Porto, on suspicion of having stabbed two foreigners in attacks motivated by racism.
The detainee is suspected of two crimes of attempted qualified homicide, two crimes of discrimination and incitement to hatred and violence and one crime of robbery, committed in the early hours of Tuesday.
The two stabbings occurred at different but successive times on the public highway.
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