During 1980 legal migration to California was between 150,000 and 200,000, part of a total population increase of 450,000.

It is the largest legal migration of Irish since 1965.

It is thus often motivated by the desire for legal migration.

Without legal migration, we will struggle to meet our target of making Europe the most competitive economy in the world by 2010.

Such an example is the legislative package on legal and illegal migration.

I should now like to say a few words on the policy plan on legal migration.

The cultural and geographic factors involved in legal migration are also significant.

That type of legal migration therefore has double added value.

Indeed, the debate on legal migration is being held elsewhere.

Maybe we could benefit from looking at a country like Canada, and especially its policies on legal migration.