EU Anti-Immigration Laws Similar To Trump's Wall?

She urged her fellow EU leaders to note the similarities between President Trump's border wall... and their own anti-immigration policies.

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00:00What most Europeans actually want is not just managed immigration, but less immigration.

00:19What would we say if 2,000 people had died trying to cross Mr. Trump's border wall?

00:28We would consider that a gross violation of human rights.

00:33And yet we hear the presidency here say, oh, the situation has improved significantly.

00:40Numbers have gone down.

00:42But Madam President, last year, over 2,000 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean.

00:50And you know what?

00:51We are very critical, and rightfully so, of this silly wall of President Trump.

00:56But Fortress Europe is just the European equivalent of that wall.

01:01And you, the Council, are building Fortress Europe.

01:04You are building the wall.

01:06We just happen to have the Mediterranean in between.

01:10Now, like Trump and his stupid wall, the Council is using Fortress Europe for populist purposes,

01:18for political debate.

01:20And like Trump on this silly wall, you are spending billions on Fortress Europe,

01:25and spending billions on unsavory regimes,

01:28rather than adopting the package that's on the table that has been adopted by a majority of this House.

01:34And something else.

01:35It's not just the European Parliament and the Commission.

01:38It's local authorities.

01:40The mayor of Gdansk, who was stabbed to death, he welcomes thousands of migrants in his city.

01:47You should take an example of that.

01:49You should learn from that.

01:50From all the NGOs, from churches,

01:53who are actually clamouring for a sensible, humane, effective asylum policy.

01:59And it is ready to be adopted.

02:00So stop playing games.

02:02Do what the European citizens expect of you, and adopt the asylum package.

02:09Because yes, we can do it.

02:11Germany has demonstrated it can be done.

02:14So just do it.