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France is going to double the places in detention centers to expel undocumented people

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Paris, Oct 7 (EFE).- The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, wants to double the number of places in detention centers for undocumented immigrants waiting for their file to be resolved with a view to their expulsion, to pass from about 1,500 to 3,000.

In an interview published this Saturday on the Le Parisien website, Darmanin justified the expansion of the detention centers in a dozen cities, with around a hundred additional places in each, as a measure of “firmness” against irregular immigration.

He noted that “immigration has always existed and will continue to exist. The question is knowing how we welcome people, how we integrate them and who we want in our territory.”

He insisted that to control the phenomenon “European solutions must be found” because otherwise there will be no solution. And that France, for its part, with the expansion of its detention centers, is showing “great firmness, unprecedented, to fight against irregular immigration.”

The main project now of the head of the Interior is now a bill on immigration that he hopes can begin its processing in the Senate on November 6 and that aims, above all, to streamline the rules to expel those without papers.

To defend this text, he explained that while since the beginning of the year 2,500 foreign criminals have been expelled “under” his “instructions” since January 1, there are another 4,000 that he cannot expel “because the law – he said – prevents me from doing so.”

With his bill, what he wants is for parliamentarians to give him “that power of firmness.”

Also that the response to immigrants who request a residence permit be much faster and that those without papers who have been working in France “for a long time” can be legalized, provided that they speak French, that they do not have a criminal record. and are integrated.

He assured that this will not have a knock-on effect because it will be a “case-by-case” regularization of people who have been in France for more than three years. EFE

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