Retailleau needs to “deport more and regularize less” and requires a legislation on drug trafficking | EUROtoday
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HASact rapidly and strongly. The new Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau declared Monday night that he needed to “take all means” to “reduce immigration in France”. “I have a goal, 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 at sea”, declared the brand new tenant of Place Beauvau on the TF1 information.
“So I want to take all means to reduce immigration in France,” declared Bruno Retailleau, former chief of the LR senators and determine of the conservative proper. He expressed his want to “use (his) regulatory power to go to the end of what we can do” to scale back unlawful immigration, “I can go quite far,” he assured.
READ ALSO “Bruno Retailleau is totally in line with public expectations”Retailleau thus intends to “start by bringing together in a few days the ten prefects of the ten departments where there is the most migratory disorder to ask them to expel more and regularize less”, and to query them on attainable “holes in the racket”.
Reforming state medical support
There are additionally “legislative provisions to be made,” he continued. “I don't want […] that France is the most attractive country in Europe for a certain number of social benefits, access to care,” he stated, assuring that he needed to reform state medical support (AME). This social support ensures unlawful foreigners who’ve been on French territory for not less than three months free medical care.
The minister additionally proposed re-establishing “the offence of illegal residence”, which was abolished beneath the presidency of François Hollande. “When you enter France illegally, it is against the law”, he argued. He didn’t rule out establishing random border controls. “We will see how far we can go”, he indicated. He additionally expressed his want to match European laws, and “form a sort of alliance with countries that want more firmness on immigration to review European texts that are no longer at all suitable today”.
READ ALSO The Barnier authorities between Macronist continuity and rightward shiftHe lastly stated he was in favour of the concept the federal government ought to return on sure agreements with Algeria, which facilitate the arrival of Algerian nationals on the territory, or of “making agreements with the Maghreb countries so that there can be a retention of immigration”.
Retailleau pleads for a legislation on drug trafficking
His different main precedence is to deal with insecurity. “Every 20 minutes, there is a refusal to comply. Every hour, an attack with a weapon. Every day, that's about 1,000 reported attacks,” listed the minister, who says he needs to place an finish to “hyperviolence.”
“I will start by enforcing the police. Those who place a target on the backs of the gendarmes and police officers, I will get in their way,” he guarantees, specifying that he’ll work in tandem together with his new colleague from Justice, Didier Migaud.
READ ALSO Bruno Retailleau: the hidden passions of the brand new Minister of the InteriorOn the refusals to conform, “there must be sentences handed down, they must be carried out, prisons must be built”, insists the tenant of Place Beauvau. He can even take inventory of the Operations Place Net established by Gérald Darmanin: “I will re-examine them, I am not ruling anything out. If it is positive, I will continue them”. On drug trafficking, lastly, he believes that there have to be “a whole change of framework. We want a legislation. It is three to 6 billion euros per yr. It is turning into a gangrene [la France, NDLR]. There are misplaced territories of the republic.
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