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Monday, 1 June, 2015
Issue #131: Awesomiasa proposes comprehensive immigration framework in SCO
STOCKHOLM, QVAIT — For months, Qvait tried to pass an extradition treaty in the Southern Cooperation Organisation (SCO) but to no avail. However, fellow member Awesomiasa has proposed a comprehensive immigration framework that would create a Common Travel Area, an international criminal database, suppress visas, and the extradition agreement that Qvait has pushed for under the West Administration.
The establishment of a Common Travel Area (CTA) would make travel easier among SCO member nations. Creating a CTA would dramatically affect Qvait's strict immigration policy, but the government of Qvait would probably go along with the SCO immigration framework since it only affects travel among SCO member nations and not travel outside the SCO. In the Qvaitican Senate, the politicians who are opposing this framework are the further-right Conservatives, who argue that passing the SCO's immigration framework would mean giving up part of Qvait's sovereignty. However, the more moderate centre-right Conservatives and Democrats, who are larger than the further-right Conservatives, support the framework.
Even though the further-right Conservatives propose passing provisions of the immigration framework, the rest of the Senate wants the framework passed in its entirety. It is evident that everyone in the Senate will support an international criminal database and an extradition agreement. However, the Senate wants Mr. Simon Harawira, the Awesomiasan representative to the SCO, to clarify the framework's provision on asylum seekers. Conservative Majority Leader of the Senate Joshua Fornell told a reporter that many other senators are unsure what Harawira intended on the asylum seeker bit, but are sure that the representative will clarify want he meant for us."
Even though the SCO immigration framework is supported by the Democrats, the further-left section of Democrats are pushing for their long-standing "Open Border, Open Immigration" policy for Qvait, which has gained much, but not enough, support over the last few years. However, members of the United Conservative Party (UCP) say that some restrictions are necessary for the security of Qvait. The Qvaitican Republic has had an open border since it first joined the South Pacific, but does not have an existing free migration policy. Despite the national arguments over other aspects of immigration, the Qvaitican Senate seems very supportive of the SCO's comprehensive immigration framework.
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