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"It would seem that European leaders are concerned about illegal immigration. About time too! True, it is only since 1995 and the disastrous Schengen agreements that the Front National has unceasingly exposed, and warned against, the inevitable harm caused by the abolition of the EU’s internal border controls.
It was not until Spain had seen a record number of more than 25 000 African immigrants land in the Canary Islands since January and not until Italian coastguards had, over a period of nine months, taken more than 12 000 immigrants to refugee camps on the small island of Lampedusa to the south of Sicily that all the European governments and Europe’s municipal worthies began to worry about the irresistible and exponentially increasing upsurge in migration.
Europe is openly revealed as being powerless to manage its land and maritime borders. It is not, moreover, Europe’s token Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders, conspicuously slow and lacking in staff and resources as it is, that will offer an effective response to the flood of immigration.
Let us re-establish Europe’s internal borders and stop regularising the status of illegal workers in a way that only encourages further immigration. Those are the essential preconditions for putting an immediate stop to this tidal wave of immigration."@en1
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