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"Mr President, Parliament today appears to have become aware of the problems related to mass, illegal immigration that Europe has been experiencing for 30 years. It is high time to realise that the sacrosanct principle of laissez-faire and laissez-passer spells disaster for Europe. One European government after another has been incapable of managing the uninterrupted waves of immigrants, and the recent, highly publicised agreement between France and Britain regarding Sangatte is not going to change things. The Sangatte refugee camp has closed, that is all very well. The United Kingdom has agreed to admit one thousand illegal immigrants, but then what? What about all the others, those who were not tagged by the Red Cross, and what about the hundreds of immigrants who arrive illegally every day? Closing Sangatte without closing borders is obviously inconsistent, absurd and ineffective. It is once again a matter of urgency, as a first step as a safeguard and a precaution, to restore controls at all our national borders and to condemn the irresponsible and obsolete Schengen agreements."@en1
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