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"The report by the Communist Member, Mr Catania, recommends the establishment of a European pro-immigration policy.
Essentially, under the pretext of defending human rights, he wants to turn Europe into an open community that is prepared to take in all the misery in the world.
To this end, he proposes a top-down harmonisation of asylum law, the principle of non-refoulement, the avoidance of detention, and even the extension to refugees of the Directive on the status of third country nationals who are long-term residents.
Mr Catania is pretending to have forgotten that most of the illegal immigrants arriving in Europe – 75 000 of them in 2008 on the Mediterranean coast alone – are not political refugees but economic refugees, fleeing poverty in their countries.
This abuse of the right to asylum, contrary to the Geneva Convention, is not mentioned at any point in the report, and with good reason: it is convenient to make the ‘white man’ feel guilty by reminding him that he was a terrible colonialist and that he now needs to pay for that in every sense of the word. Legends die hard.
By trying to transform asylum law into a normal branch of immigration, Mr Catania is paving the way for a variety of abuses and is turning illegal immigrants into scapegoats."@en1
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