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"Mr President, although it is hard to imagine from the relative comfort and security of a western European country like Ireland, globally persecution is more widespread than ever. We have only to think of the political persecution in Burma, the economic persecution in East Timor, the religious persecution in Indonesia, Malaysia and Korea and the persecution of mothers and fathers in China for conceiving an unauthorised child and the added persecution if it is a girl child. There is the persecution of disabled people in some communist countries and the persecution based on tribal origin in the Sudan.
Billions of people live under the threat of persecution. When that threat moves closer and they must escape, we must receive them. It is a human imperative, but also a deeply ingrained cultural imperative in Europe. From the earliest times many of us learned the story of St Joseph taking the child and his mother to Egypt because King Herod planned to kill him.
This report highlights the need for real effective guidelines and standards for refugees. I understand this need well. I have lobbied for genuine refugees in my own country, largely unsuccessfully. I think particularly of two Ukrainian doctors who narrowly escaped death after exposing a government-licensed trade in human tissue obtained from aborted but living 20-week-old foetal babies. Those doctors – a consultant oncologist and a paediatrician – who sacrificed their whole careers for their courageous action, have been in Ireland for over a year in an overcrowded hostel with no certainty that they will not be sent back to persecution and death. Our response in Ireland, from what I know of other EU countries, tends to be slow and ungenerous. In the face of genuine asylum-seeking, this is not good enough. Regardless of third countries, can we even call our own EU countries safe countries? We should not automatically presume."@en1
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