Helena Anillo Slams Andorra's Immigration Policies as Bronx-Like After El Pas Unrest
Columnist Helena Anillo links recent street disturbances in El Pas de la Casa to discriminatory immigration and security measures that stigmatize.
Key Points
- Anillo references police intervention in early Saturday disturbances in El Pas de la Casa, comparing it to New York's Bronx.
- Criticizes policies stigmatizing migrant children prenatally based on parental origins.
- Follow-up to 17 Jan column 'Fitxats abans de néixer' on invasive education and immigration oversight.
- No official responses from Andorra authorities reported.
Helena Anillo has escalated her criticism of Andorra's immigration and security policies, linking them to recent unrest in El Pas de la Casa and portraying the area as akin to New York's Bronx.
In a follow-up column published by *Altaveu* on 18 January 2026, Anillo references police intervention in early Saturday morning disturbances on public streets in El Pas de la Casa. She questions whether the parish has devolved into a notorious urban trouble spot, tying the incident to broader concerns about migrant communities and control measures.
This comes a day after her 17 January piece, "Fitxats abans de néixer," where she condemned increasingly invasive oversight in education, immigration, and interior affairs. Anillo argued that such mechanisms, often justified by security or prevention needs, stigmatise children from migrant families from birth—or even prenatally—effectively labelling them based on parental origins.
Her writing frames these policies as discriminatory tools that target young people from immigrant backgrounds, amid ongoing immigration and integration debates in Andorra, where expatriates make up a large share of the population. The columns are tagged under interior affairs, immigration, education, society, police, incidents, and parishes.
No official responses from authorities have been reported.
Original Sources
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