Controlling and reducing immigration was one of the great promises of Brexit.
But the United Kingdom recorded a record net migration in 2022 with 504,000 net entries against 173,000 the previous year.
The small boats, these precarious boats which cross the Channel towards the British El Dorado, took 45,0756 illegal immigrants against 28,526 in 2021, according to estimates from the British National Statistics Office.
“
It is the reflection, delayed, of the pressure that there is on Europe in terms of entries
”, confirms to
Figaro
Didier Leschi, director general of the French office for immigration and integration (Ofii).
However, several Franco-British treaties were to frame this incessant flow.
Until an agreement on November 14 providing for the payment of 72.2 million euros to Paris, which undertakes in exchange for a 40% increase in its police forces on the beaches.
The most emblematic of these Franco-British treaties is that of Le Touquet.
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