“All Have to Go Back”

00:12 Speaker, 00:16 One million, ONE MILLION people are ready 00:20 to leave Libya for Europe in rickety boats, 00:24 the way to Europe via the sea. 00:28 They are the victims of merciless human traffickers, 00:33 and thousands are drowning. Men, women, 00:37 children. The terrible, shocking images people have seen already. 00:41 But Speaker, as long as hundreds of thousands 00:45 succeed in reaching Europe, 00:49 many others will calculate the risk and take the chance. 00:53 And the European Union… 00:57 only makes the problem bigger. Point 1 from the ten-point plan: 01:01 They say they will solve the problem by sending even more 01:05 ships – taxi-boats, patrol boats, close to the Libyan coast, not to 01:10 send back the migrants, but to bring them to Europe safely. 01:14 To pick them up, and BRING them to Europe. 01:19 Guarding our coast becomes only more complicated. 01:22 Our coast guard in reality is like a shuttle service that brings 01:26 more migrants to Europe. 01:29 (Interruption) Mr. Speaker. I hardly can believe it. What is Geert Wilders saying now? Is it better to let the people drown? 01:36 Those people who are in the Mediterranean Sea in rickety boats, we don’t have to save them? 01:39 Is that the solution? 01:41 (Wilders) If you have a little bit of patience, I will give my solution… 01:44 (Interrupter) I am asking you a question so I would like to hear an answer. (GW) Ill give you one. 01:46 (Interrupter) I have a question and I want an answer! (GW) You can stand there for hours, but I will give you my answer. 01:55 (Speaker giving procedure and rules) (GW) Let me continue. 02:11 I’ve already said Europe only makes the problem bigger. And Europe only makes the problem more serious, 02:15 and the stupidity has to stop. 02:19 And luckily, it’s already proven that it is possible. Look to Australia: 02:22 A civilized country, a Western country, that knows how to guard its borders. 02:28 Australia repatriates its refugees on safe boats back to their country of origin. 02:34 All of them. Without exception. “Push back” it’s called. 02:38 Boats with immigrants are stopped, and pushed back to the land where they come from. 02:46 And if those migrant boats are unsafe, Mr Speaker, because nobody wants those people to drown, 02:52 then they are replaced, Australia provides them with a safe boat. 02:57 But, back, BACK they will all go. 03:01 And what is the result, Mr. Speaker? The result is that fortune-seekers will not drown anymore… 03:07 Also those human traffickers don’t make money anymore. 03:12 The result is that the influx of immigrants will dry up. 03:17 Effectively, the human traffickers no longer enjoy success. 03:20 The people no longer drown, and Australia and if we echo them, Europe won’t get immigrants anymore. 03:27 (Interruption from Mme. Gersthuizen, Socialist Party, SP) In the hope that it now will please Mr. Wilders to answer;… 03:36 Hopefully Mr. Wilders is aware of [the news, it’s in all the newspapers] that many refugees depart from Libya… 03:40 I hope also that the PVV-group realizes the terrible stories these people bring along. 03:43 About the degrading circumstances these people had to live under, for sometimes weeks, sometimes months, 03:47 in Libya in sometimes degrading conditions and as Europe we surely cannot say; “Go back to a country… 03:51 …that is no more than a desert, back to a country where people the heads are chopped off on beaches…” 04:00 …Is that what PVV suggests here? 04:05 (Wilders) All have to go back, that’s my answer. All go back, without any distinction. (Gersthuizen is protesting) 04:08 Without discrimination. Without exception. (argues with Gersthuizen) All have to go back without exception. 04:18 And find a place in Libya on the beach or in North Africa where it is safe. 04:22 But I say Mr. Speaker to the (other party leaders) we can’t handle it. We in Europe can’t accept that many refugees… 04:30 We can’t handle so many immigrants. And if the leader of the SP, Mr. Speaker, is so concerned about people 04:37 drowning, then I say if we continue this way, people will keep on drowning. 04:43 Because everybody has the idea that by getting in these rickety boats they have a chance to reach Europe. 04:49 If we give the signal that we will safely deport them back, in a safe boat, 04:54 so that they will not drown, then they will not take the risk anymore and immigrants will not come anymore. 05:01 And that is the solution.