Thread: EU ministers, Canada, vow crackdown on illegal immigration

EU ministers vow migation cooperation

(AFP) – 2 hours ago

PARIS — Six EU governments and Canada vowed Monday to boost cooperation in cracking down on illegal immigration, led by Italy and France, who has drawn criticism for deporting Roma minorities.

Officials agreed to seek "accelerated procedures" for dealing with people whose requests for asylum or immigration have been refused, said French Immigration Minister Eric Besson.

"We must join in new cooperation in the fight against irregular immigration," Besson told a news conference after hosting the meeting, held ahead of an EU ministerial conference in Brussels on September 13-14.

Besson was flanked by Italy's Interior Minister Roberto Maroni as well as his Canadian counterpart Jason Kenney and junior ministers from Greece, Britain, Germany and Belgium, which holds the rotating EU presidency.

The French government has drawn criticism from UN experts and human rights groups for clearing Roma from camps and deporting them to EU members Romania and Bulgaria as part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's law and order drive.

Maroni's party, the anti-immigrant Northern League which is a pillar of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's coalition, has praised France's expulsion of Roma as a model to follow.

Besson denied France is engaged in "collective expulsions", insisting the Roma were leaving voluntarily in return for payments, and reiterated his insistence that France was respecting EU laws on freedom of movement.

Maroni said Italy had cracked down on unauthorised migration by boat from North Africa and was looking at curbing arrivals from elsewhere in southeast Europe, notably via Turkey.

"The next step in this process is to create a unified European system in legislative terms so that all countries have the same rules and standards in order to better manage a significant phenomenon," Maroni said.

The Greek representative Spyros Vougias said 82 percent of illegal immigrants to Europe entered through his country, which was "no longer able to stem the tide".

Kenney said meeting with the EU leaders had been "very useful" because "a large number of false asylum claims" and human-trafficking posed a threat to Canada's immigration system.

The ministers said Canada received the third-biggest number of asylum claims in the world in 2009 and France the second-biggest after the United States.

The seven countries at the meeting together received more than 183,000 asylum requests in 2009, accounting for half of the total in industrialised nations.

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no to Anmesty & Illigal Immigrant go home & good for Canada it about time i hope NYC get on the Ball with this It bad

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"PARIS — Six EU governments and Canada vowed Monday to boost cooperation in cracking down on illegal immigration, led by Italy and France, who has drawn criticism for deporting Roma minorities."


Why are we expected to "more fully integrate" our government functions with Canada and Mexico through the SSP, and expected to enter into so many unprofitable (to the U.S.) agreements with the EU, but when they decide to do something terrific and beneficial like this, the United States is not included?

Canada is already tough on them. They deport families all the time. Unless they have stolen ID then they do not get government funded healthcare. If a baby is born in Canada it is a Canadian citizen but does not allow the parents to get welfare, low income housing or any other such benefit. When Mexicans were fleeing the United States went to Canada to work construction jobs and other employees on the job site ntoified the unions and it was the unions who called immigration. The agents showed and caught illegals while others who heard about it took off and never returned.
The only problem they have had is people like the Sri Lankans who arrived on a boat in British Columbia seeking refugee status. After the latest incident the government it looking at making the rules stricter so people smuggled in like that are not allowed to stay.

Originally Posted by Texas2step

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Why are we expected to "more fully integrate" our government functions with Canada and Mexico through the SSP, and expected to enter into so many unprofitable (to the U.S.) agreements with the EU, but when they decide to do something terrific and beneficial like this, the United States is not included?

Good question - why wasn't the U.S. there? All these seven other countries, AND the U.S., probably want the U.S. to continue to take most of the asylum seekers. And feel pressure to take even more than we already do, if the other countries cut back. Heaven knows, we can't ever say no to anyone from anywhere -- that just wouldn't be politically correct One World Social Justice.

The ministers said Canada received the third-biggest number of asylum claims in the world in 2009 and France the second-biggest after the United States.

The seven countries at the meeting together received more than 183,000 asylum requests in 2009, accounting for half of the total in industrialised nations.

So, all these seven countries combined get about half the world's asylum requests, which likely means the U.S. alone gets the other half! And I'm betting we award asylum to the highest percentage also.

Originally Posted by builditnow

Originally Posted by Texas2step

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Why are we expected to "more fully integrate" our government functions with Canada and Mexico through the SSP, and expected to enter into so many unprofitable (to the U.S.) agreements with the EU, but when they decide to do something terrific and beneficial like this, the United States is not included?

Good question - why wasn't the U.S. there? All these seven other countries, AND the U.S., probably want the U.S. to continue to take most of the asylum seekers. And feel pressure to take even more than we already do, if the other countries cut back. Heaven knows, we can't ever say no to anyone from anywhere -- that just wouldn't be politically correct One World Social Justice.

It is like some of us were saying this afternoon. The corporations and big business in general give large donations to political campaigns. They want their slave labor and therefore our government looks the other way. Both parties are guilty of that. If Obama really wanted to create jobs he would decrease the number of work visas issued and would make all government agencies use American call centers and not ones in India. Not that long ago Florida actually opened a call center back in the United States for foodstamp assistance calls. They should also make companies who got federal bail outs do the same. Many banks have people offshore dealing with parts of the foreclosure process.