Here we go again.
After a pause in 2020 due to Covid and widespread border closures, France opened its doors wide to immigration again last year.
We granted 270,000 residence permits, a figure equivalent to the historic record of 2019, and registered 100,000 new asylum applications.
Over the duration of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term, we will have welcomed a total of more than a million additional immigrants, not to mention several tens of thousands of new illegal immigrants.
This is the equivalent of half the population of Paris, or twice that of Lyon.
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And the same laxity
is found in the management of the expulsions of illegal migrants.
Only a small minority of the obligations to leave the territory were actually carried out last year.
The bravado of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin towards the Maghreb countries
("as long as you don't take back your compatriots, we don't accept your compatriots")
were not…
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