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"Mr President, the running aground of the “East Sea” on the French coast is a tragic illustration of a twofold problem: the problem of oppressed nations and the problem of the oppression of immigrants. At the present time, the Kurdish people, scattered over several countries, are experiencing pitiless oppression which highlights the on-going struggle to force the government to respect the right to self-determination and to respect national minorities.
Moreover, these tragedies that we have seen occurring on Spanish beaches or at Dover cannot result merely in our condemning the people who ship in the illegal immigrants. The Schengen area is a fortress which forces the victims of hunger or of political dictatorships to take illegal action. Yet everyone knows that no amount of policing can halt the flow of people who are in fear of their lives. Those who organise these shipments of illegal immigrants are now growing fat on these repressive laws, which in any case are a violation of the Geneva Convention. It is time to open up the borders to the free circulation of people, just as you have done for capital. We no longer want to see the spectacle of entire families entering Europe by paying large sums of money to risk their lives in decrepit old tubs."@en1
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