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The texts debated refer to the few immigrants who will manage to get past the controls of border guards and electronic records with new biometric data; not immigrants arriving on European charter flights so that they can queue up to become 'legal' immigrants.
Even for these immigrants, the conditions for acquiring a resident's permit, in Greece at least, are prohibitive. In other words, people who have been in Greece for 10, 20 or 30 years will still be illegal. The ruling class wants them to be illegal so that they can hold them to physical and psychological ransom.
The texts cynically admit that immigrants are useful as a way of dealing with the demographic problem of the ΕU, of meeting the needs for mainly unskilled labour and of implementing the Lisbon objectives. The resolution warns that 'managed migration cannot mean side-stepping the reforms of ΕU labour markets ... needed to increase employability and overall adaptability to economic change'.
The objective is to overexploit immigrants, so that flexible forms of employment and the depression of labour costs for the benefit of the unifying monopolies can pass more easily into the working order of the EU and the repressive measures are more easily accepted by the peoples, in the name of fighting illegal immigration.
For these reasons, the Communist Party of Greece did not back the resolution."@en1
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