The leftist touch in the debate on deportation

Spain's Socialist government has endorsed the draft EU guidelines on a common deportation policy. Soledad Gallego-Díaz comments: "Racism is best prevented by sending the blacks packing. That is the quintessence of an argument commonly used until now by the European right. What is new is that the Left - terrified by the repercussions the immigration debate is having on their voters - is now using it as well, of course in their own way. Deportations should only take place for humanitarian reasons. Quite honestly, the worst thing about the draft deportation guidelines that the EU Commission sought to pass this week with the support of the Spanish government is the effrontery with which they try to pass it off as an improvement in immigrants' rights."

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