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"Mr President, since the economic system based on paid work became widespread, emigration has always served to provide the enterprises of the developed countries with labour. That is how US power was built. France, Great Britain and other countries would not have developed without the contribution of immigrants from their colonial empires or from poorer countries of Eastern Europe.
Unlike the slave trade, these population movements were free; migrants were not chained or whipped. The hunger and poverty of their places of origin were enough to drive them to emigrate. Where that emigration was regulated, it was done to serve the interests of the capitalist enterprises, in other words, the big employers of the host country. In other words, this report is not dazzling in its originality. True, it proposes that modern wage slaves should be well integrated, and it even proposes positive measures for women, but their main purpose is to control them and adapt them to the needs of the labour market.
What is new in this report, on the other hand, is the proposal for temporary immigration, which will allow big western capital to benefit from a workforce already trained elsewhere and therefore trained free of charge and to get rid of it once it thinks it no longer needs it. Well, that is an inhuman system because it is the market that decides instead of people and that situation will continue so long as the present economic system exists.
What, however, the workers can and must be given in order to safeguard their collective interests, whether they are citizens or migrants, is a strict equality of rights so that the employers cannot set one against the other by introducing a competition that will be harmful to all. That is why we are calling for complete equality of civil and political rights for all who live and work on the Union’s soil, including the right to move freely, to leave and to return. We call, moreover, for the legalisation of the situation of all so-called illegal immigrant workers, who are only illegal because the authorities refuse to grant them papers."@en1
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