“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, whom we want to welcome with dignity and humanism so that they are happy and contribute to the development of our country, have opportunities, and integrate well—this is what we are doing,” he stated.
Luís Montenegro was speaking to journalists after a mass in memory of PPD founder Francisco Sá Carneiro, at the Basilica da Estrela in Lisbon, after being questioned about the new regime for the return of 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 45 years ago, “the principle and end of political action is the person.”
According to Montenegro, the Government is committed to building a country that “leaves no one behind,” that believes in the Portuguese and in 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 in those who come to Portugal with good intentions,” he declared, adding that, like Sá Carneiro, this Government will leave a legacy.
