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The European Union is developing a common system for immigration and asylum and a single external border control strategy.
In France, helping an illegal immigrant (providing shelter, for example) is prohibited by a law passed on December 27, 1994 http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1995/06/ROCHU/1546. The law was heavily criticized by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as the CIMADE and the GISTI, left-wing political parties such as the Greens and the French Communist Party, and trade-unions such as the magistrates' Syndicat de la magistrature.
The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet published stories once in July 2004 and a second time in May 2006 that Hellenic Coast Guard ships were caught on film cruising as near as a few hundred meters off the Turkish coast and abandoning clandestine immigrants to the sea. This practice allegedly resulted in the drowning of six people between Chios and Karaburun Peninsula on 26 September 2006 while three others disappeared and 31 were saved by Turkish gendarmes and fishermen. ( Delete the Border quoting Khaleej Times;
ADN Kronos Survivors of the immigrant boat tragedy accuse Greeks (in English) - http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/haber.aspx?id=5115588&tarih=2006-09-20
http://proje.hurriyet.com.tr/msnnews/?path=/gundem/5152587.asp&y=41 http://proje.hurriyet.com.tr/msnnews/?path=/gundem/5155756.asp&y=41. The newspaper Hürriyet (in Turkish). Three of the drowned were Tunisians, one was Algerian, one Palestinian and the other Iraqi. The three disappeared were also Tunisians. ) However, there are numerous non-Turkish claims and testimonies that Turkish authorities and/or citizens lead immigrants through the sea, often resulting to the abandonment and sometimes drowning of said immigrants.
A tough new EU immigration law detaining illegal immigrants for up to 18 months before deportation has triggered outrage across Latin America, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatening to cut off oil exports to Europe. (Chavez: Europe risks oil over immigrant law) (Venezuela's Chavez Threatens to Deny Oil, Investments to EU Over Immigration Laws)
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