Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-05-11-Speech-3-393-000"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20160511.23.3-393-000"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spoken text |
"Mr President, Schengen is a failed project – I do not know why we are even discussing it. I really do not buy the economic argument; it is security that matters. What price do we put on our security?
Schengen’s open borders have allowed thousands of illegal migrants to camp at Calais for onward illegal entry into the UK. The French authorities have even given them safe passage via trains to Calais.
Dublin is being dumped, not because it did not work, but because the State has turned a blind eye. Now nation states are putting up borders – borders work, that works. I was in Calais again last week; five and a half thousand migrants are camped there, all waiting illegally to break into my country. I have been there quite a lot of times, I have spoken to the various nations represented there, and I have asked them: are you refugees? But they are not refugees, they are economic migrants. Because I go there and ask them – I do not listen to the Commission, I do not listen to the left and the human rights industry that are promoting this – I go there and listen to them myself.
When I was there last week, they were deciding they were refugees because the human rights industry was telling them they were. Real refugees do not pick and choose the borders where they want to stay. That is Schengen. That is allowed, and that is why it has failed."@en1
|
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:unclassifiedMetadata | |
| lpv:videoURI |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples