Speaking in the debate, Parliament's rapporteur on the proposed Intervention Teams, Belgian Liberal Gérard Deprez, said that "it's about organising assistance to those facing a sudden and massive arrival of illegal immigrants...today this problem concerns southern EU members, but nobody can exclude that other, especially south-eastern or eastern borders, will tomorrow face similar sudden and recurrent pressures".
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