Too many people without the right to stay in Europe are still in Europe. For decades now, Europe has been facing the urgency and chaos of migration. Legal immigration and illegal immigration are adding up, and today, the flaws in the current law, as well as in the migration pact voted on a few months ago, are such that deportations ordered by judges are not carried out in the European Union.
Illegal immigration is a well-orchestrated business for the benefit of its orchestrators and the Islamization of Europe. You have filled our countries with illegal immigrants with the blessing of Germany and France. We pay the Islam that hates us out of our own pocket to turn our cities into ghettos, to rape and murder before our eyes in the name of Allah.
Identifying the Flaws in the System
The flaw in the system is obvious to everyone. Once someone has set foot on European ground, they will remain here forever and cannot be removed. Unfortunately, this repatriation regulation will not change anything. The real problem is that they are able to enter European soil in the first place. Europe does not need migration. What Europe needs most right now is remigration.
We must eliminate all illegal immigrants who have unlawfully entered our lands against the laws of our nations to rid ourselves of violent offenders, murderers, thieves, and terrorists who are killing people in Western Europe. Hardly a week passes without global media reporting on some sadistic murderer randomly stabbing people with a knife.
Real-Life Consequences
Habib Rahman, an Afghan whose asylum application was rejected, murdered his housemate in Saxony. If he had been in our custody, he would have been deported, and that woman would be alive now. Illegal immigrants and the organizations that assist them know all the tricks and endlessly prolong administrative or judicial procedures. We cannot allow this. Every deportation must include the examination of the asylum application and have an immediate executive effect.
In September, a nineteen-year-old girl was found raped and murdered in Paris. In January, a two-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a city park near Frankfurt. In February, in Munich, a two-year-old girl and her mom were killed by a car terrorist. What do these events have in common? Every one of them, and hundreds more, was committed by illegal migrants who have arrived illegally to this continent, been denied asylum, and not been deported.
Addressing the Consequences of Inaction
Time and time again, we have warned about the dangers of illegal migration, and time and time again, we have been dismissed, ignored, and vilified. How many more Europeans must die, be raped, robbed, attacked before you wake up?
Football supporters Kent Persson and Patrick Lundström, who were murdered by an Islamist in Brussels, would be alive today if Belgium had deported Abdesalem Lassoued to Tunisia. Carola Herlin and her son Emil would not have been stabbed to death at IKEA by Eritrean Abraham Ukbagabir if he had been sent back when his asylum application was denied. Eleven-year-old Ebba Åkerlund would still be alive if Rakhmat Akilov had been deported to Uzbekistan. The same goes for those who recently died in Munich.
Solutions and Sovereignty
We have become inundated with Mahmouds and Mohammeds in a Europe that is now unrecognizable. Solutions are available. You need to strengthen, by all means, the countries that are a model of lynching, such as my country Greece, but also Italy and Spain. Those who don’t have a right to stay in the EU should not be in the EU. A simple, self-explanatory sentence. Yet only one of five third-country nationals with a return order is effectively returned.
Because we cannot have a system where people that are denied asylum can simply move to another member state to avoid being returned, there must be clear rules, firm obligation, and real consequences for non-compliance. National sovereignty and security are affected by this illegal migration. My country was a safe country until two and a half years ago. Now it is not a safe country.
Human Rights and Illegal Immigration
And what about human rights? The Portuguese, the Europeans also have human rights. Why do we undermine the human rights of European citizens, the citizens of our countries, the citizens of Portugal, to elevate the human rights of others who enter our home by force and without invitation?
Those who illegally enter European territory should not be entitled to either a benefit or asylum. They must be arrested, and their mobile phones confiscated. They should be transferred to closed centers on uninhabited islands and from there deported to their own country or to countries outside the European Union by means of transnational agreements. Stop supporting their stay and start supporting their removal instead.
Learning from Others
Our beacon should be the policies of Hungary and Poland, which instead of being condemned are fought so as not to offend Islam. Anyone who violates the borders of a country is like breaking down the door of our home. Not a week goes by without hearing about women and children being murdered by individuals who had been deported yet illegally remained in countries where they should have been long gone.
Europe is struggling with a massive rise in crime. It is battling a surge in terrorism and must simply get rid of these people. They have no place here and must be deported just as Trump began doing in America.
And that’s why I don’t understand how some leftist progressive members of this assembly can defend the presence of murderers and violent offenders in Europe and say that it’s a breach of their rights when we get them out of there. They have no business being here, and they deserve to be kicked out immediately.
The Need for Effective Policies
According to Eurostat data, only about one-third of the people who received an order to leave the territory of the European Union were actually deported to a third country. We should ask ourselves, where do these millions of illegal migrants in our European home come from? The process of returning individuals is essentially a huge joke. Enhancing returns is also a matter of security. Migrants from the Middle East and African countries in particular are clearly overrepresented in crime statistics.
Angela Merkel’s open-door policy and the lack of an effective return policy have taken a bloody toll. Knife attacks in Bavaria, Solingen, and Arras, where people were killed by individuals who were supposed to be deported, are clear examples of this. According to Eurostat, only one in four deportation orders is actually carried out.
A Call to Action
Illegal immigration is the cancer of Europe, and you are treating it with aspirin. So start mass deportations yesterday. The money is there. The airports are there. The detention centers are there. Round them up in detention centers and get them out before Europe dies. We want our countries, our identity, and our values back.
And if you so-called sensitive socialists are looking for racists—look in your mirrors. You are the biggest racists against Europeans. I have to remind you that the EU-Turkey Joint Declaration, which provides for returns, and the Readmission Agreement enforced since 2016 are not being implemented by Turkey.
It is essential that we agree that third countries of origin and transit that refuse to accept rejected asylum seekers will henceforth face consequences. For years, the European Union has promised to combat illegal immigration, but is this proposal really a firm one? No sanction mechanism is planned against third countries that refuse to take back their nationals in an irregular situation nor any restriction on Schengen visas, nor economic and financial sanctions.
Conclusion: A Unified Approach
The Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been warning about these issues for ten years and repeatedly calls for a fundamental reform of European return policy. First, we must abolish the distinction between safe and unsafe countries. Let’s not forget something obvious—it is the migrants who create insecurity. Therefore, we should not constantly question which country they are being sent back to.
In short, we need political will, but we also require legal tools to protect our people. Those who illegally enter or stay in Europe should only have one certainty: they will be expelled from our continent eventually.
Hundreds of thousands of people each year ignore our laws and regulations and simply stay. This gnaws at our sense of justice, and it comes at a cost. Without effective return policies, no European asylum system will be sustainable. Hence, it is vital that the commission introduces this ambitious proposal now, and I am glad that Commissioner Brunner has listened to our call and is already presenting this new return regulation in the first one hundred days of this committee.
Anyone who enters or remains without a residence permit or valid visa must be detained and held for as long as necessary until they return to their country—either in a detention center or in a safe third country. Only then will we put an end to the pull factor—when they realize that rights are only for Europeans or legal foreign residents.
I think this proposal in general creates now the common framework that we need. It closes many of the loopholes and puts forward also a legal framework for return hubs. These are key messages that ensure that the people who do not have the right to stay in Europe also must leave Europe. But this is only a starting point. Negotiations must make this proposal as strong and effective as possible. Our system demands results, and I think that wishful thinking days are over. Now we need a policy that is in contact with reality.
From EPP, we are ready to deliver, and we are ready to get to work. Thank you.
