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"The Council’s proposal for a directive concerning unauthorised entry, movement and residence is another in a series of proposals for repressive measures, tabled in the legal sphere. In spite of the fact that the Member States have agreed to establish a common immigration and asylum policy, all energy is being focused upon producing proposals aimed only at making it more difficult for people to enter the EU, whether they be refugees or people looking for work.
A large number of Europeans choose to hide often unknown people who have been smuggled in or have managed by their own efforts to get themselves over the border and into the EU countries. Those people who, with no thought at all of profit, make an effort on behalf of people in fear of their lives, must not be punished. This type of humanitarian aid is now entirely lawful in, for example, Sweden and ought not to be criminalised.
Europe needs a common immigration and asylum policy characterised by humanitarianism. We have an obligation to help people who find their way here in order to obtain sanctuary, irrespective of whether they are refugees from war-torn areas or asylum seekers fleeing political oppression. Europe must also change its attitude to legal immigration and open its borders to citizens of third countries who wish to look for work in the European Union. The basis must be that people should be allowed to travel freely into the European Union and not be prevented from doing so by a restrictive policy on visas and work permits.
By means of a policy which affirms both asylum seekers and immigrants, we can get on top of organised crime and the human tragedies for which traffickers in human beings are responsible."@en1
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