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We have supported Mr Kirkhope’s report on the German initiative to increase cooperation between Member States when measures need to be adopted on the removal, by air, of third country nationals residing illegally in the Union. These are useful, but relatively technical measures that, Mr Kirkhope, a former Secretary of State for immigration under the UK’s last Conservative government, has nevertheless found it extremely difficult to admit to the Commission and the European Parliament.
We have heard, from the benches on the left, unreasonable speeches denouncing the ‘deportations’, ‘inhumane methods’ and ‘mass expulsions’. This is a view that is out of step with the reality of the situation, because these removal measures have a clear basis in the law. In particular, these are not mass expulsions (expulsion of an entire social group without taking individuals into account). These are individual expulsions, overseen by the legal system, of persons in an illegal situation.
On this subject, the minority opinion of Mr Krivine, Mrs Boumediene-Thiery and others, who see these expulsions as a ‘violation of the rights of migrants’, and who clearly wish to open Europe’s borders to immigrants from the entire world, is quite enlightening."@en1
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