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"Mr President, if we do not change course radically, then we will have many more debates here on Lampedusa and mass immigration into Europe. As long as the European Union and most Member States continue to pursue an extremely lax asylum and immigration policy, every year, tens of thousands of people will be tempted to make the crossing to Lampedusa, to Pantelleria, to Malta, to the Canary Islands, and so on, with all the human drama that this entails.
People traffickers will be well served and they will be thankful to the politically correct bleeding hearts in the Commission and the European Parliament. Desperate times call for desperate measures. It is, therefore, in everyone’s interest that people who do not qualify for political refugee status are sent back quickly and effectively to their country of origin and that they realise that they should not have set off on their journey in the first place.
However, that message must also be communicated very clearly. Ultimately, the EU must get its external borders under control, otherwise we will have no other option but to simply abolish the whole idea of the Schengen area and the open internal borders."@en1
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