2024-06-08 00:10:50
The Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Dimitris Kairides, denies a CBS report, in line with which the opportunity of relocating immigrants from Latin America to Greece and Italy is being mentioned.
“The CBS report is unfaithful. There’s neither an settlement nor a request from the US to resettle authorized immigrants in Greece. Greek immigration coverage is evident and efficient, regardless of worldwide difficulties. Strict border safety, with respect for the legislation and human life, and combating unlawful trafficking and, on the identical time, bilateral labor mobility agreements with pleasant international locations to cowl gaps within the labor market and appeal to expertise to advertise the nation in worldwide analysis and expertise middle”, Mr. Kairides wrote in his publish on X.
“Our coverage brings outcomes as mirrored within the low fullness of the nationwide reception and identification system, particularly within the constructions of the Jap Aegean islands, and the success of the journey visa facilitation program for authorized Turkish guests there, on account of our elevated credibility in European Union”, the minister added.
The CBS report is unfaithful. There’s neither an settlement nor a request from the US to resettle authorized immigrants in Greece.
Greek immigration coverage is evident and efficient, regardless of worldwide difficulties. Strict border safety, with respect…
— Dimitris Kairidis (@DimKairidis) Might 31, 2024
The publication
The US community’s report, citing two sources with data of the US authorities’s plans, stated that “the Biden administration plans to ship some Latin American immigrants for resettlement to Greece and Italy as a part of an effort to discourage folks within the area to journey to the US-Mexico border.”
“The initiative will embody Greece and Italy receiving migrants whose information are being processed at immigration workplaces that the Biden administration created final 12 months in 4 Latin American international locations,” one of many sources stated.
The facilities, formally generally known as Places of work of Safe Mobility, permit sure immigrants from Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Guatemala to use to settle legally within the US or different international locations. “Beneath the brand new preparations, Greece and Italy will be a part of international locations comparable to Canada and Spain already collaborating within the resettlement program,” the report stated, including that Italy and Greece would possible obtain a comparatively small variety of immigrants, about 500 or much less every.