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Aslambek Paskachev, deputy chairman of the Public Chamber Commission on International Affairs and Freedom of Conscience
There are from 10 to 11 million legal migrants in our country.
As for illegal migrants, according to various data, there are from 3 to 10 million of them, but nobody can state an exact number.
So, there are some issues.
First of all, how can the system we put in order and migrants become legal?
Secondly, how can normal working conditions be provided for them?
The decision should be complex.
Probably we should start with amnesty of all illegal migrants to make them legal, while labor migrant contracts should be registered in the revenue service.
In this case we will get a lot of additional resources for the budget.
For prevention of penetration of criminals to our country, cooperation with law-enforcement agencies of the countries where migrants come from should be established.
It will elicit their criminal past.
We should know who come to us, for what, and with what skills.
At the same time, we should be ready to welcome migrants of certain professions.
In major cities our citizens often refuse from jobs which are attractive to migrants.
As for internal migration, it should be settled by the regions where migrants come from and the regions where they strive for.
Of course the balance of labor resources which will be established will enable us to do it.
We will develop these questions together with interested federal and regional ministries and departments.
We will try to avoid thoughtless and radical decisions.
Migration from the Caucasus has always been, it exists, and it will always be.
This is a labor excessive region of Russia.
Russians, not Russians, natives, not natives leave the region because the economic ties of the Soviet period have been ruined.
A lot of enterprises were shut down, while new jobs appear insignificantly.
There will be a lack of jobs in the North Caucasus for next 50 years at least.
At the same time we have a lack of workers in other regions of Russia.
It should be noted that migration is going from Syberia and the Far East.
We consider this to be a negative factor, because a significant part of our country is almost empty.
At the same time, as for migrants from the North Caucasus, we should know who will move to other entities and what their purposes are.
We should prepare for this process both the migrants and the recipients.
Naturally, migrants from the North Caucasus demand better conditions than foreign workers need, because they are our citizens.
The employers do not want to pay them, so we must control them to make them observe the labor law. This is not only about new proposals but also about observing the existing rules.
But our goal is also to fill the gaps which are present in our labour law.