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Having been deaf and dumb for years – and not for lack of warnings – Parliament and the Commission have woken up. The Schengen agreements reducing interior border controls within Europe would appear to have had some perverse effects: increased illegal immigration, illegal employment, crime and all manner of trafficking.
The only problem was that instead of dealing with the main cause of all of these problems, these scandalous Schengen agreements, our leaders are attacking their effects!
This report thus proposes as a magic solution a common policy on immigration, on visas and border controls, in particular creating a ‘European Corps of Border Guards’, and thereby reducing Member States’ sovereignty over their territory.
In order to combat illegal immigration, the report envisages implementing an ‘active policy on legal immigration". What hypocrisy! One might sum this up as meaning that, if there are too many illegal immigrants, we arrange for them all to be legalised. The French Government is indeed adept as this type of sleight of hand.
In truth, the entire text is utterly insignificant, since, let us not forget, the tone on illegal immigration was set at the June 2002 summit in Seville. The decision was effectively taken, notably under French pressure from President Chirac, not to take any enforcement measures against the countries of origin of illegal immigrants."@en1
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