PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron is set to make a second attempt at increasing expulsions of illegal immigrants after a series of scandals and under fierce pressure from his far-right opponents.
"It's about integrating better and expelling better," Macron's hardline interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, told France Inter radio on Tuesday of the new proposals.Darmanin and Macron have clearly linked immigration to crime in recent weeks, with both saying that around half of petty crimes committed in Paris are by foreigners.
Figures from the interior ministry show that France currently expels around 10 per cent of migrants who have been ordered to leave the country and the rate has never been higher than 20 per cent.Around 13,000 were expelled in 2021, a year when around 120,000 asylum claims were lodged. French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who scored 41 per cent in the second round of April's presidential election, regularly accuses the government of laxity and"submerging" France with foreigners.
The chaotic management of 234 migrants and asylum seekers who landed in France in November aboard the charity rescue ship Ocean Viking has also embarrassed the government.Although the interior ministry initially said most of the adults had been refused entry to France, only a handful were detained after they lodged asylum claims and court appeals.
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