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The French initiative, through the proposed directive and the proposed framework decision, offers only the solution of criminalisation to the problem of illegal immigration. Proposing to step up the penal framework for prosecution for assisting the illegal entry and residence of immigrants is tantamount to making solidarity a crime. The proposed amendments are right to distinguish the assistance provided in return for payment from the assistance provided out of solidarity, on humanitarian grounds.
Criminalising the people and organisations fighting against Fortress Europe is not, however, an effective tactic against the underground networks and smugglers. What should be combated, rather, is this ever more restrictive visa and asylum policy which forces people to enter European Union territory illegally. What should be combated are the structural adjustment policies and policies imposing the Community
which exacerbate unemployment in candidate countries, and the logic of development aid packages for countries in the South which are completely inadequate and unfairly distributed. A policy of cancelling debt and of ensuring equitable development aid would be a first essential step towards a different kind of European policy on immigration. We are resolutely opposed to the logic behind criminalising immigration and that is why i voted against the draft French initiative, even in its amended form."@en1
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