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Members share the indignation expressed by the GUE proposal, which we voted on, at the death of the 58 immigrants in Dover, and of so many others, who attempted to cross external or internal borders of the European Union.
In order to put an end to a situation where poverty forces thousands of human beings to leave for lands where they hope to have a slightly better life, we must put an end to a social system which, in order to concentrate extraordinary riches in the hands of the few, enforces poverty on the majority of the planet. Obviously, a vote in Parliament will not bring about this upheaval, although it is an essential need for humanity.
It is disgusting that, even in areas where current national and European institutions could actually do something, they do nothing. The Dover tragedy happened between two European countries. The barbed wire fence we are currently setting up around the European Union exists even within the Union for third country nationals, and these barriers can kill.
It is not enough to denounce the crooks that make money by trafficking in human beings. Immigrants must be guaranteed the rights to which every human being should be entitled. We must ensure the free movement of persons. We must put an end to immigration policies that turn immigrants into some sort of subhumans with no rights, if not into illegal immigrants preyed on by the police.
We wish to protest most strongly at the policy of the French Government, which revels in its role as President of the European Union but which refuses to regularise 65 000 immigrant workers who have become illegal immigrants as a result of unfair laws, and we demand that their situation be regularised immediately."@en1
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