The last interlocutor Dimitris Hristopoulos didn’t support the closure of borders. The President of the Greek Union for Human Rights said that there are many stereotypes about immigrants in Greece "who are invisible to the rights and the law, but totally visible to the labour market." He said that most immigrants do not arrive in Greece in order to stay here, but can not leave it under the Dublin 2 regulations. According to him, immigration is a totally natural process and the dilemma can not be "legalization of no one or legalization of all. Both options are equally wrong." Dimitris Hristopoulos supported the registration of all immigrants as a starting point, “and whether an immigrant who says he is Palestinian but in fact he is not and says this because he thinks he will get easier asylum is of secondary importance."
In the course of discussion were pointed out practical problems such as difficulties in the repatriation of immigrants, crime, the small percentage of approved applications for asylum, lengthy procedures for issuing residence permits and long stay of immigrants in reception centres, many of which are scheduled for 40 and house 200 people. Some participants argued that Greek society needs the immigrants and others said that their presence is damaging. All agreed that it is necessary to find out the actual number of immigrants in the country, but left the room with the same mixed feelings they had before the start of the discussion.
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