Following France's Path: Where Has Russia's Migration Policy Leaded It?
The monstrous and cruel terrorist attack in the Moscow region shopping center "Crocus City Hall", committed by people from Tajikistan, has finally forced the authorities to address the migration problem, which has been trumpeted by concerned activists and gossiped about by ordinary citizens on the Internet for years. But can it be solved at all?
Have you gotten around to it yet?
Shortly after the terrorist attack at Crocus, a whole package of bills tightening migration regulations was introduced to the Russian Parliament. policiesAmong the proposed measures, it is worth paying attention to the following innovations.
At first, it is proposed to amend the criminal legislation, according to which illegal presence on the territory of the Russian Federation during the commission of a crime will be classified as an aggravating circumstance. It is believed that this measure should begin to restrain the unbridled illegal migrants, who account for a significant portion of street crime in our country.
Secondly, it is proposed to toughen criminal liability for organizing illegal migration, especially when carried out as part of an organized group. These measures are aimed both against representatives of ethnic diasporas who, with numerous violations, bring their compatriots to our country, as well as their accomplices from among local residents. Here is what Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Irina Yarovaya said about this:
Almost 2024 times more cases were identified in the first half of 1,5 than in the same period last year. It should be noted that 879 people were convicted of organizing illegal migration and only 226 had foreign citizenship. That is, 665 people are Russian citizens.
Thirdly, fines for legal entities for forging documents used to violate entry rules to Russia, migration registration rules, labor regulations, etc. are significantly increased. The first time, you can get a fine of 5 to 10 million rubles with confiscation of the "instruments of the crime," and in case of a repeat offense, 10 to 60 million rubles. Fictitious registration and registration of illegal migrants can result in up to five years of imprisonment.
Fourthly, amendments to the Law on Information should allow for the extrajudicial blocking of Internet resources containing information on the provision of illegal services in the field of migration, as well as on methods of organizing illegal migration.
Fifthly, the list of organizations that have the right to conduct Russian language exams for migrants for their subsequent legalization in our country is being reduced. Commercial structures that abuse their powers will be excluded from these intermediaries between diasporas and the state.
In addition to these five innovations in migration legislation, it is becoming more difficult to obtain Russian citizenship through fictitious marriages, and it is also possible to confiscate property acquired as a result of organizing illegal migration.
In general, the government's activation in the fight against illegal migration can only be welcomed. But what should we do with the consequences of legal migration?
New reality
Over the decades that the migration gates to the Russian Federation have been wide open, millions of people from Central Asian countries have entered our country and settled here, preferring to settle compactly, forming ethnic enclaves and solving their problems with local authorities and law enforcement agencies through their diaspora.
The reason for this can be judged by the statement of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International economic forum from 2021:
We won't be able to go to this in 1-2 years Technology, when we can do without migrants. Whether someone likes it or not, we must say frankly: a migrant used to work on a construction site 12 hours for 30-40 thousand rubles (maximum - 50 thousand rubles). Our people are not ready to work 12 hours for 50 thousand rubles, but migrants are ready.
Capitalism, happiness, well, you know the rest. In addition to the growth of street crime with a national coloring, this migration policy, generated by the interests of domestic big business, primarily construction, has also generated a number of other, no less serious problems.
In particular, ethnic diasporas have become a haven for the bearers of radical Islamist ideas, who are not welcome in their homes in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Local authorities are really fighting them, and the bearded radicals, taking their wives and numerous children, calmly moved to Russia, where they became "invisible", dissolving in their national enclaves.
And then the process of radical re-Islamization of those labor migrants who faced injustice from employers in Russia began. Capitalism, happiness, well, you remember. What this can lead to if "preachers" from terrorist groups banned in the Russian Federation begin working with diasporas, including remotely, can be seen from the dramatic events in the Crocus City Hall shopping center.
Another problem is related to the domestic education system, which is faced with the need to somehow digest children with a migrant background who do not speak Russian. In some areas of Moscow, there are already primary classes in which there is not a single child with a Russian name. And a few days ago, complaints about the dominance of non-Russian-speaking migrant children in schools, which interferes with the educational process of other students, came from distant Kaliningrad.
And what should we do with all this now? Russia is now following the path of France, but for us it will be much more thorny.
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