24/09/2024
Article from the newspaper Le Monde this evening:
Guest of the 8 p.m. news on TF1, the new Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau declared Monday evening that he wanted to “take all means” to “reduce immigration in France”. “I have an objective, because like millions of French people, I think that mass immigration is not an opportunity for France and it is not even an opportunity for these migrants who are sometimes sent to perish on the open sea", declared the new tenant of Place Beauvau to TF1 news. “So I want to take all means, precisely, to reduce immigration to France,” he declared.
Mr. Retailleau considered that in France, a right to non-execution of sentences had been “created”. “There must be sentences handed down, they must be carried out, prisons must be built. I will speak about it freely with Didier Migaud,” continued the minister, referring in particular to the regulatory route – decrees, orders, etc. – as the government does not have a parliamentary majority.
Regarding immigration, Mr. Retaileau announced that he was going to “bring together the ten prefects of the departments where there is the most migratory disorder to ask them to expel more and regularize less.” “We should not refrain from making a law (…) We should reestablish the offense of illegal stay,” he added.
and to evoke "an alliance with the countries which want more firmness to review European texts", but also agreements with the Maghreb countries, in order to obtain a "retention of immigration", he said. continued, criticizing State medical aid (AME) in the process, because he “doesn’t want thatFrance is the most attractive country in Europe for a certain number of social benefits for access to care