Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-02-03-Speech-2-080"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-02-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sanctions against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20090203.5.2-080"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-02-03-Speech-2-0812
lpv:speaker	lp:Maria da Assunção Esteves2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (2007-11-23--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"The Fava report introduces progress and humanisation into the immigration laws. It provides us with the moral reassurance which we have owed ourselves since the Return Directive. The general ban on employing illegal immigrants not only avoids the endemic illegality of immigration, but above all avoids the potential for exploitation and taking advantage of human misery that generally goes hand in hand with this type of work. The first essential point about the Fava report is that it challenges the school of thought on illegal immigration that settles for an easy but unacceptable condemnation of immigrants, instead setting out a systemic response that makes the state and the employer equally responsible. Until now, the main failure of immigration policies has been the lack of a fair response to the terrible situation of illegal immigrants, with the weight of the legal system falling on them and their status as culprits rather than as victims. The second essential point about the report is that it brings into the European public arena an ethic of shared responsibility between the state and companies. The obligation of employers to carry out advance supervision by checking workers’ residence status is valuable in that it grants a competency to the private sector; something that the European Union has not often tried. We applaud this competency because the defence of legality and public ethics falls not just to the state, but to everyone. The report is therefore blazing a trail for a new political method which other reports ought to follow. The third point – and, coincidentally, the most fundamental one – is the crucial separation of the obligation to pay remuneration from the problem of the legality of residency. It constitutes a simple declaration of the universal moral precept that states that humanity comes before the rules of the legal system and takes precedence over them. Congratulations, therefore, to Mr Fava."@en1
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