Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2017-03-01-Speech-1-133-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2017-03-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Tackling the disappearance of migrant children in Europe (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20170301.18.1-133-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2017-03-01-Speech-1-134-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Gerard Batten2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the United Nations Refugee Agency estimates that 35% of migrants entering the European Union since January 2016 were children. In 2015, 85 482 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in the EU, which was three times the 2014 figure. Now it seems that thousands of these children have gone missing, their fate unknown. Are we to believe these children were sent abroad unaccompanied? Are we to believe that in a single year 85 000 minors made their own decision to make their way to Europe entirely on their own? Of course not. They were trafficked by criminal gangs, but someone had to pay the gang first and, presumably, that was their parents or families. The EU Schengen Area and open borders policy has helped to create an immigration and asylum racket: get the children in first and then the families can follow. The innocent victims of this racket are the children themselves."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee of Inquiry to investigate alleged contraventions and maladministration in the application of Union law in relation to money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion (2016-06-24--2017-12-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Gerard Batten,"1 "on behalf of the EFDD Group"1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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