Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-22-Speech-1-124"
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"Mr President, while I appreciate the efforts of the rapporteur on this, I am afraid my group will not support the report, because we do not support the proposal itself.
As many Members have pointed out, the proposal fails to address the very important issue of how we deal with people who are deemed to be illegally within our countries in the European Union. This, in our view, includes what happens to those people on their return to their countries of origin. It is not at all clear who has responsibility for ensuring that they are returned safely and continue to be safe. We have no monitoring system for that at all, and therefore it seems to us no real way of knowing whether our policies for judging who is a refugee, and who is an illegal immigrant, actually work.
That point has come to the fore in the part of the debate about safe third countries. Different countries have very different perceptions. For example there are some Member States that consider Iran to be a safe third country – which will come as news to many Iranians.
We should also be aware that people are being removed from some of our Member States for the very reasons for which we are supposed to protect them, for example on grounds of ethnicity in the case of the Roma. When we look at the conditions of return by air, it is not surprising if people resist when they believe they are being returned to intolerable conditions. It is also no surprise, for example in London, the region I represent, that the Metropolitan Police wants to distance itself from the role of the immigration services when it comes to deportations, because the issue of measures necessary for self-defence is highly contentious in virtually every Member State."@en1
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