Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-14-Speech-3-286"
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"Mr President, I congratulate Mr Pirker on his report. There are some interesting aspects in it that I can support, but the issue of the creation of border guards with police powers is a disturbing development. One of the issues that has not really been taken into account is the control and accountability of these police guards. This is the wrong direction to take.
In general there is too much emphasis on turning this matter into a criminal issue. I listened to the speaker from the UEN Group, who lumped illegal immigrants in with drugs traffickers, but there is a big difference between the two. Illegal immigrants may be illegal, but they are still just ordinary people and not criminals. All they are doing is desperately trying to find somewhere to live.
The whole emphasis on keeping people out has to be addressed. We should in fact be addressing the issue of why people want to enter the European Union, instead of building our barricades higher. More and more people are being driven into the hands of people traffickers and, as my colleague has said, the whole issue of work practices and exploitation needs to be tackled. We have to examine, with regard to illegal immigration, the root cause of why people have to leave their own country, and this is a human rights issue rather than a criminal issue."@en1
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