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Le Figaro editorial: "Faced with irregular immigration, France is a sieve"

2024-01-04T19:14:23.263Z

Highlights: Le Figaro editorial: "Faced with irregular immigration, France is a sieve" Border controls are limited, cooperation between the police and customs is uncertain, and only 10% of the obligations to leave the territory are carried out. The Court of Auditors' reports are often forgotten. One can already imagine that the one it has just devoted to the fight against illegal immigration will suffer the same fate. This time, it would be outrageous. It suffices to prove, if it were still necessary, that the recent law on the subject is nothing but a sham.


For a thousand bureaucratic reasons that are as absurd as they are wrong, border controls are limited, cooperation between the police and customs is uncertain, and only 10% of the obligations to leave the territory are carried out.


Regrettably, the Court of Auditors' reports are often forgotten. One can already imagine that the one it has just devoted to the fight against illegal immigration will suffer the same fate. This time, it would be outrageous.

Its reading suffices to prove, if it were still necessary, that the recent law on the subject is nothing but a sham. It won't change much, while the observation made by the wise men of Rue Cambon is damning. Curiously, they issue their findings after the law is passed, not before. They did not want, they said, to disrupt the proceedings. But what is the purpose of this institution, if not to enlighten the public authorities? And, as there is no such thing as chance in politics, to muddy the waters even more, the Minister of the Interior chose to proudly announce yesterday that the number of immigrants deported in 2023 had increased by 30%. With drums and trumpets, on the very day of the publication of the firebrand...

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