Rui Minderico / Lusa
The President of arrives, André Ventura
André Ventura will ask the government to suspend family regrouping. “It has nothing to do with humanism, to be acceptable or not.”
Last week the minister of presidency, Leitão Amaro, warned that there will be a New increase in immigrants in Portugal. THE Family release – Arrival of family members of immigrants – will contribute to this climb.
Family regrouping “implies the entry of more people and, therefore, we also need moderation in the solution”, the minister.
O He arrives will present a resolution project to ask the government that suspend Temporarily the family regrouping until the migratory situation “was resolved,” announced the party leader today, who accused the executive of ineffectiveness in this matter.
“I wanted to announce that (…) we will ask the government that block and suspend the family regrouping that is thinking that it can happen in the coming months”, He announced André Ventura, Speaking to journalists at the door of an evangelical church in Loures where last week, PSP detected a warehouse used for illegal immigrant housing.
The right to family regrouping is established in Portuguese legislation to those who obtained a valid residence authorization in Portugal, and may request the entry and permanence in the country of family members.
Questioned if it does not look like a situation of humanism that, those who legally enter Portugal and have residence permission, can bring their family, André Ventura replied that This question “should have been posed before”.
“They should not have entered. And now they come in, come families and therefore we can pass – just so that people have this notion – from one and a half million to DOis millions of immigrants in a few months. This is unsustainable”He claimed.
Ventura argued that the suspension of family regrouping “It has nothing to do with humanism, to be acceptable or not”nor does it aim to “penalize anyone”, but rather ensure that Portugal does not become “a gimmick of immigration”accusing the executive of being ineffective in this matter.
Questioned about how long this suspension should be in force, Ventura replied: “Until we have the situation resolved”.
“We have hundreds of thousands of people who have not seen the situation of immigration resolved, we could not even expel those we had notified that we were going to expel … I mean, let’s let more people come in?” He asked.
Asked whether the request for suspension intends to cover those who entered Portugal under the refugee statute, such as refugees from Ukraine, André Ventura distinguished between those who come “from visible, notorious and understandable conflicts” and immigrants for other reasons.
“One thing is who comes from visible, notorious and understandable conflicts, is the case of Ukraine (…) or women who came from Afghanistan. None of this happens to those who are here: they are not women of Afghanistan who are here [em Loures]around Arroios or in the center of Lisbon, ”he said.
Ventura then argued that “For now, no one should access the family regrouping While the country did not regulate half a million people. ”
“This seems to me to be evidence. We didn’t regularize half a million and let’s let go a half million?” He said.
To Lusa, the government’s official source said that family regrouping will be limited to the capacity of Portuguese society to integrate immigrants.
