BC > "So exactly what control do we have over undesirable citizens coming from the EU, e.g. murderers, rapists, violent thugs etc?"This matter was specifically addressed in Cameron's renegotiation agreed by European leaders on 19 February 2016:"Host Member States may also take the necessary restrictive measures to protect themselves against individuals whose personal conduct is likely to represent a genuine and serious threat to public policy or security. In determining whether the conduct of an individual poses a present threat to public policy or security, Member States may take into account past conduct of the individual concerned and the threat may not always need to be imminent. Even in the absence of a previous criminal conviction, Member States may act on preventative grounds, so long as they are specific to the individual concerned."But I will hazard a guess that many of those who voted to leave the EU have a much, much wider definition of "undesirable citizens" and it will include doctors, nurses, plumbers, builders, cleaners, students, fruit pickers, etc.
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