Paolo Gentiloni Quotes

[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

The current system for admission of refugees with family ties in the U.S. is fraught with inconsistencies and discriminatory practices.

The scandal isn't that refugees want to come to the United States. It's that Trump is abusing these aspiring Americans and closing our doors to them.

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

We will look at the entire immigration question from the protection of outer borders through the asylum procedures to integration, in particular its efficacy.

Germany has got to deal with its global responsibilities in a mature way. There has been insufficient thought to immigration law, and we need to differentiate between different kinds of migrants. There are valid refugees whose lives are at risk at home.

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

Everyone who has ever asked for asylum in Slovakia was granted asylum if that person met the conditions. There was never any discrimination based on religion.

We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.

The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.

We now have two options: We can commence operations at the Hotspots in Italy and Greece and continue to do nothing - in which case they would soon be overflowing. Or we can show responsibility and organize a distribution system that takes into account the limits of each individual member state. Migrants, for their part, must recognize that, while they have a right to protection, they do not have the right to freely choose the country. In addition, it is clear: Not everybody can come to us.

The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.

Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements.