Immigration in the U.E.

From: Alejandra Diaz. article

In this report I would like to let you know that in the most recent European agreements, the States members reached a consensus related to the length of detention of illegal immigrants in a series of internment camps. The initial draft of the Commission proposed a maximum duration of six months. However, Member States have agreed to take the average of 18 months ...! Besides we are going to impose the "integration contract" which seeks to make immigrants asimilate the rules and customs of host countries. Obviously, this leaves the door open to an even greater arbitrariness of the States in the selection of foreigners.

The content of this European agreement really worries me. The need of a legislation is obvious, but do you always have to do so only from a repressive and arbitrary perspective?

On the other hand, I was rather surprised to hear that the European Union is however opened to certain kind of immigrants since we are going to create a "blue card" for "skilled" immigrants, designed to attract workers, technicians and experts from Third World countries, in a immigration policy called "selective". This European mechanism is going to be more or less an imitation of the famous' green card you have in the nited States, which allows immigrants to enter and exit freely without coming to obtain citizenship.

What worries me the most about it is the difference treatment “different” people are going to receive in my country. What makes people different? The number of certificates they have? Aren´t we all at last human beings with the same rights? Is it the influence of Realism in the European Union again???