Right Wing, Racist Republicans The EU Set To Pass Tougher Immigration Laws

The draft was watered down from what many states wanted but it still represents an attempt to deal with an increasingly difficult problem.

The agreement would organise legal immigration based on a state's needs and ability to welcome people, and combat illegal immigration, ensuring that foreigners who do not have papers are removed.

EU nations would base legal immigration on workers or professionals whose skills are tailored to their particular labour needs, favouring those who would stay in their countries long term.

The ministers will also pledge to try to avoid handing out residency permits en masse. Italy and Spain have angered some of their partners by giving papers to some 700,000 people in recent years.

Refugees will be increasingly obliged to apply for asylum from outside -- some 220,000 people did so last year -- although the EU will strive to better channel aid to those countries they are fleeing.

…It will be built on the newly agreed "returns directive", which obliges states to give residency to illegal immigrants or send them home, and empowers nations to detain people for up to 18 months during processing.

Maybe we have something to learn from our European ‘friends’ after all.

Of course the usual suspects are outraged by the 'xenophobia' of it all.

posted by DrewM. at 01:39 PM

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