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". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is a persistent pretence of not seeing or understanding that the policy of closing the borders and preventing the invasion of illegal immigrants is the only policy that can remove the danger posed by traffickers in human beings. All the left does is talk about human rights, without proposing the steps that need to be adopted to combat those that traffic in illegal immigrants, uprooting millions of people from their own countries. That is what we would like to hear from anyone who upholds human rights. Lampedusa has been spoken of as if it were Guantánamo. That is simply ridiculous and, in view of the fact that I am one of the group of MEPs that went to Lampedusa, I can confirm that I personally heard someone say: ‘It is too clean, there is something not right here’, because the reception centres in other parts of Europe are all much dirtier and more disorganised. We should therefore give credit to the Italian Government – which is spending tens of billions of taxpayers’ money – for what it is doing on Lampedusa, where medical assistance is provided 24 hours a day, in contrast to the provision for European citizens. It is shameful that certain newspapers are trying to besmirch the work of Italian volunteers and the who should be held up as a model for the whole of Europe for the way in which they conduct themselves on Lampedusa and on the sea aiding illegal immigrants. That is what the gentlemen of the left ought to ascertain, instead of pretending to be unaware of what the Zapatero government is doing, when in fact it is firing on illegal immigrants."@en1
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