The deputies approved on the night of Wednesday 27 to Thursday 28 the budget, upwards, allocated to immigration for 2022, in a context of resumption of migratory flows after the decline in asylum requests linked to the health crisis.
The appropriations for this immigration budgetary mission increase by 3% to 1.90 billion euros for 2022 (1.84 billion in 2021).
The Minister of Citizenship Marlène Schiappa defended a "
significant budgetary effort"
aimed at giving the government "
the means to act more and to act better".
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The additional 58 million euros will in particular make it possible to create 1,500 places in reception and examination centers (Caes), as well as 3,400 places in reception centers for asylum seekers (Cada) in the first half of the year.
"If the evolution of allowance expenditure for asylum seekers
(ADA)
, the level of which remains subject to uncertainties, does not exceed forecasts"
, according to the bill.
In the chamber, the right criticized a
“failure”
of the government's migration policy and criticized budgetary measures
“not up to the stakes”
.
"It is not only the credits which increase: the number of projected asylum seekers"
also, affirmed the deputy LR Mansour Kamardine.
Affirming that the government is making a
“denial of reality”
, the deputy LR Pierre-Henri Dumont called for
“more resources”
to fight against irregular immigration, to be allocated in particular to the border police.
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Condition the
“necessary”
opening
of accommodation places to the cost of the allowance for asylum seekers is
“unacceptable”
, for his part said Jean-Michel Clément, of the Freedoms and Territories group. These new places are more
"derisory in view of the needs"
, swept the rebellious member Danièle Obono. According to her,
"there is a lack of at least 60,000 places in the national reception system for asylum seekers"
. The 800 additional accommodation places dedicated to
"the most vulnerable"
refugees
are
"insignificant in relation to the demand"
, added Elsa Faucillon, PCF MP.
The immigration budget has been increasing continuously since the start of the five-year term: + 22% in 2018, + 12% in 2019, + 8% in 2020, + 2% in 2021.