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"We will of course be voting against this report which, in the guise of technical neutrality, seeks to organise deportations of so-called illegal immigrants. The fact that the only elected European Union institution is justifying these expulsions and helping to organise them shows that it is worth no more from a human or social point of view than the national institutions, that is not very much.
On top of inhumanity comes hypocrisy, because no one can ignore the fact that industry, construction and industrial agriculture rely to a large extent on immigration, whether it be legal, illegal or seasonal. Turning so-called illegal immigrants into fair game for the police means above all handing them over with their hands and feet tied to their employers: this reduces some workers to semi-slaves, it pushes down everyone's wages and it is part of the war being waged on the poor by all the governments of Europe. I therefore protest against these expulsions and call for all those without papers to be given a proper legal status and the same civil and political rights as all workers."@en1
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