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"Mr President, the report on policy priorities in the fight against illegal immigration of third country nationals that we have just approved is certainly not the worst report that has ever been passed here and it does, in fact, contain a number of very interesting recommendations, but I still think that the report fails to clearly tell the whole story and so I have not approved it myself.
The immigration problem in Europe threatens to be the problem of this coming century – it may already today be the problem of the coming century – and illegal immigration is an important part of that. We might, therefore, have expected a much firmer standpoint to be taken, especially against the successive waves of regularisation in the various countries of Europe. After all, these have the effect of sucking people in that will eventually roll out over the whole Union, over all Member States.
It is simple actually, and we should have had the courage to put it into words. Illegal immigration cannot be tolerated. Illegal immigrants must be tracked down and we must be resolute in sending them back to their countries of origin in a humane manner. Those who dare not say that, and thus will certainly not dare to carry it out, will create enormous problems that will eventually cost our prosperity and our civilisation dear."@en1
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