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"Mr President, any debate on immigration must be based on at least four facts. People will continue to risk their lives coming here no matter how many walls, prison bars or vessels we deploy. People do not come to Spain, Malta or Italy: they come to Europe. All the studies point to the fact that the immigrant population is necessary in the EU to guarantee the current level of the welfare state. However, there is still a disturbingly high level of abuse of many of these people by unscrupulous businessmen who take advantage of their vulnerable situation in order to exploit them.
If this is the case – and I would remind you that this has already been demonstrated and is not the result of prejudices or suspicions – if this is the case, what we must do now is develop a reasonable and intelligent European policy on access at our borders: stopping people crossing them does not help to control the process; it merely makes the situation more dramatic.
We must likewise take a responsible attitude to our reception process, guaranteeing asylum and refugee status to immigrants, individual treatment of each person, and realistic solutions."@en1
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