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"Mr President, any society needs an influx of fresh blood, but there is the question of the impact of newcomers on society.
Before the growth of the public services and infrastructure that we now demand, large numbers of immigrants were easily absorbed, but now they place an enormous strain on public services. In well-developed countries, massive immigration from undeveloped regions intensifies the problem. Some unskilled workers find it difficult to get a job and become a burden on the welfare state. But we should not try to attract skilled people from undeveloped countries, because they are badly needed there to improve their own economies.
Once we saw Vietnamese boat people fleeing oppressive regimes. Now we see West Africans taking to boats and hazarding the Atlantic to seek a better life. That is due, at least in part, to the EU, as powerful fishing fleets armed with licenses granted by the votes of this House plunder their waters, reducing people already badly off to abject poverty.
Migration is mainly economic and the pressure to migrate decreases as the prosperity of undeveloped countries improves. We must help those economies, both as a duty and to reduce migration. Third World countries do not need a handout. They need expert help to build their infrastructures and sources of employment. Above all, they need to trade.
If communities can sell their produce outside their own backyard, they make progress. Unfortunately, for all its fine words, the EU stands in the way, consumed with protecting European producers. The EU’s high tariff barriers cruelly shut out the Third World from trade highways."@en1
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