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\u201cThe project should focus on all categories of foreigners, whether they are in the Czech Republic in an illegal situation or an asylum seeker,\u201d Interior Ministry spokesman Hana Mal\u00e1\u00a0told\u00a0Tiscali.cz.<\/p>\n
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Three-quarters of the 2.3 million euros currently allocated for the scheme will be paid for out of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), local media said, reporting applicants will have to promise not to return to Czechia nor to any other EU country, in order to be eligible for the financial assistance.<\/p>\n
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Pointing to a recent deportation from Germany which set taxpayers back 80,000 euros to fly just three migrants back to west Africa, Tiscali.cz described the N\u00e1vraty scheme as a \u201ccheap solution\u201d, with the Interior Ministry noting that the costs work out less than providing illegal immigrants and asylum seekers with public services such as healthcare.<\/p>\n
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Like its Visegrad group partners in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, the Czech government has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration, opposing EU efforts to spread third world migrants throughout the bloc and\u00a0refusing\u00a0to take in the share demanded by Brussels.<\/p>\n
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Czech Prime Minister\u00a0Andrej Babi\u0161 has said Europe must \u201csend a clear signal that illegal migration has ended\u201d by turning migrant boats back and deporting bogus asylum seekers,\u00a0arguing\u00a0that the European Commission\u2019s preferred solution \u2014 creating a permanent mechanism to share newcomers across EU states \u2014 was the \u201croad to hell\u201d, and would only exacerbate the problem.<\/p>\n
Czechia was one of only five countries to vote against the so-called Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration at the UN General Assembly in New York City last month, where 152 countries\u00a0signed up\u00a0to the agreement and a dozen abstained.<\/p>\n
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The document, which claims migration is \u201cinevitable, necessary, and desirable\u201d, poses a threat to the nation\u2019s sovereignty and security by defining the movement of people as a \u201chuman right\u201d,\u00a0stated\u00a0Babi\u0161, who has previously\u00a0branded\u00a0mass immigration from the Global South a \u201cthreat to European civilisation\u201d.<\/p>\n
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