The office of the Minister of the Presidency indicates that the objective is a “system that combines effective control with a dignified and humanistic integration” of immigrants that resolves “the political ineptitude of the past.”
The Government will present an “action plan for migration” in Portugal, which guarantees “effective control with dignified and humanistic integration,” a source from the Minister of the Presidency’s cabinet announced this Tuesday.
Leitão Amaro is in Brussels, where he participated in a meeting of the Council of the European Union on the European pact on migration and asylum.
“After returning and meeting with some entities, he will present to the Council of Ministers an action plan for migrations, which resolves the heavy legacy of ‘past political ineptitude’,” a source from the Minister of the Presidency’s cabinet told Lusa. .
The objective is a “system that combines effective control with a dignified and humanistic integration” of immigrants, states the same source.
During the campaign, the The PSD criticized the immigration policy of the socialist governmentthe creation of the Integration, Migration and Asylum Agency (AIMA) and the extinction of the Immigration and Border Service (SEF), as well as what was classified as a lack of supervision of the cases to be regularized.
In Portugal there are around 400,000 delays in the AIMA, an institution created on October 29 of last year, and Portugal approved a one-year visa for citizens of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) that is being analyzed by the European authorities , out of suspicion. of violating the rules of the Schengen agreement, of which the country is a party.
This Tuesday, in an opinion article in the newspaper Publicthe former socialist minister Ana Catarina Mendes defended the creation of AIMA and criticized those who question immigration policyremembering that the organization has promoted several changes to streamline the processes of regularization and renewal of documents.
“The creation of AIMA is the practical decline of a world view: whoever immigrates or intends to immigrate cannot be seen as a suspect, as a police case, but as a foreign citizen. “It is therefore essential to respect his dignity, doing everything possible so that public services treat immigrants with a humanistic and less bureaucratic approach, just as we want the State to treat a Portuguese citizen,” the former minister wrote. .
Source: Observadora
