“In immigration policy, we safeguard people. The people who want to come to Portugal to work, whom we want to come according to the rules, and whom we want to welcome with dignity and humanism, so they can be happy and contribute to the development of our country, so they have an opportunity and integrate well, that is what we are doing,” he stated.
Luís Montenegro spoke to journalists after a mass in memory of the PPD founder Francisco Sá Carneiro at the Basílica da Estrela in Lisbon, following questions about the new regime for returning illegal foreigners approved by the executive.
The Prime Minister framed the executive’s policies within the historical matrix of the Democratic Alliance (PSD/CDS-PP coalition), according to which, as it was 45 years ago, “the principle and the end of political action is the person.”
According to Montenegro, the Government is committed to building a country that “leaves no one behind,” believing in the Portuguese and the people who come to the country “with good intentions.”
“We are building a new, strong, cohesive Portugal that truly leaves no one behind, that believes in the Portuguese and those who come to Portugal with good intentions,” he declared, adding that, like Sá Carneiro, this Government will leave a legacy.
