. >> inside the chamber, the parliament president martin scholz began with a moment of silence. when we talk -- >> what we talk about illegal paragraphs, we are talking about things that are quite extraordinary. i cannot believe that the fishermen were being threatened with prosecution for helping the illegal immigrants. >> italy and others have called for changes to the so-called dublin regulation that that -- that governs immigration into the european union. under those rules, just one member state has to protest those applicants and it has to be the first country that the migrants arrived in. the rules were designed to thwart other countries who deal with their borders ineffectively. according to the european commission 90% of asylum applications are handled by just 10 eu member states. >> here in france, there are an estimated total of 400 to 500,000 illegal immigrants. their hope of getting official papers came last year when the first socialist president in 17 years was elected. here is a look at whether or not things have really changed. >> refusing to remain invisible th