Bruno Retailleau goes back to the charge against immigration. Adding the number of first titles of stays and that of asylum requests, the Minister of the Interior considers in an interview to be published this Sunday in the JDD That “half a million admissions per year is too much”.
“The migratory question is first of all a question of number. As the Prime Minister said, everything is a question of proportion: in a village in the Pyrenees or Vendée, one more family, it is not a problem. Thirty, it is an upheaval. Today, we no longer master the flows, ”comments the minister in this interview.
Towards “a more restrictive visa policy”
France delivered 336,700 first stay titles last year, a figure up 1.8 % compared to 2023, according to statistics unveiled this week by the Ministry of the Interior. Regarding the request for asylum, the ministry reported a 5.5 % drop in total, to 157,947 files.
Hold on a hard line on immigration, Bruno Retailleau judges that “the migratory subject is the ability to reduce entries and speed up exits. But priority is first of all the entries. ” “Today, we are faced with legal standards that hinder us and the reluctance of certain states to cooperate on expulsions. The execution of the OQTF does not only depend on us, but especially on the countries of origin, which must deliver consular pass. Before even accelerating expulsions, it is therefore necessary to reduce incoming flows. This involves in particular a more restrictive visa policy, ”he says forward.
Standoff between Algiers and Paris
The Minister therefore encourages parliamentarians to move forward on subjects such as the duration of retention in administrative detention centers (CRA), “on the offense of irregular stay, on the power of prefects who should be able to suspend a decision to recover freedom taken by a liberties judge when it concerns a dangerous individual ”. According to him, “we must also review the issue of social benefits”.
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Furthermore, concerning the case of the Algerian influencer “Doualemn” whose obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) has been canceled and at the heart of a standoff between Algiers and Paris, the tenant of Place Beauvau considers that “the rule of law has been unscrewed to the point that the rule of law no longer protects French society, but disarms the sovereign state. When a rule no longer protects the French, it must be changed ”.
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