Migrants, Corner summer attack on the right – The World

Le Monde | 05/08/2015 at 6:39 • Updated 08/05/2015 at 7:16 | By Matthew Goar

At the heart of the summer break, the crisis of migrants in Calais and Paris offered a window of the right to criticize the executive. In first line, the deputy of the Aisne party Republicans (LR), Xavier Bertrand, first proposed in the JDD “let the migrants” in England before putting pressure on the Socialist majority. “I ask Bernard Cazeneuve and Manuel Valls to be firmer, more aggressive towards the British Government” , he repeated, RTL on Tuesday, August 4, waving fear to see “barbed wire all along the coastline. “” No way to let distort the Opal Coast to please the English. “

In Paris, the occupation of an abandoned vocational school of the 19th arrondissement has led to a burst releases. Claude Goasguen, deputy of Paris, denounced a «Previous constitutes a growing attraction of migrants” while Nadine Morano, MEP, took the same line evoking a “call considerable air to illegal immigration, “ while denouncing in the text dirt streets of Paris ” invaded SDF, mattresses on the sidewalks. A shame for the image of France “

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A comparable balance

For weeks, the right firmness displayed by demanding strict enforcement of the law, particularly with regard to deportation of applicants rejected asylum. Tuesday, Eric Ciotti, Deputy General Secretary of RS, has called on the government to set up “a responsible, coherent and lucid, resulting in a firm and resolute implementation of the renewed foreign policy in an irregular situation “.

” A Calais and Paris, we are creating abscess that benefit smugglers and undermine the true seekers wing drifting “ says to World Roger Karoutchi, Special Rapporteur on the mission” Immigration, asylum and integration “in the Senate: ” We must renew those at the border who have no reason to seek asylum, otherwise what is the point that we vote laws? “

If the right accuses the left of laxity, yet both sides have a comparable record of deportations. In 2014, the Ministry of Interior has conducted 27,606 “deportations” of illegal immigrants (27,081 in 2013). The decline from the peak of 2012 (36 822 evictions) is relative, since the number of evictions in 2014 corresponds approximately to 2010, in the time of Nicolas Sarkozy (28 126). But the right believes that migratory pressure has increased and that the left is not sufficiently rise. The number of asylum applications rose in effect continuously since 2007 (29 937 that year against 50,952 in 2014). “The migration situation in 2015 has nothing to do with the 2003″ , justifies Mr. Karoutchi, while Xavier Bertrand lashed to the agreements signed Touquet February 4, 2003 by Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Interior

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Opposition front

At the legislative level, the RS parliament also continue to oppose frontally. They voted against the reform of the asylum law, finally adopted on July 15, which aims to reduce the average time for processing applications.

A week later, LR MEPs also voted against the bill on the right of foreigners, some items facilitate deportations. Since his return to political life, Nicolas Sarkozy advocates, to him, a complete overhaul of European migration law with the introduction of a 2 where all the Schengen signatory countries would agree on common asylum policy.

His main rival, Alain Juppe, opposed by demanding a strengthening of Frontex means within the framework of Schengen. Divided on this issue, the leaders of the right are in any case agree on one thing: to months of regional elections, they can not leave the field of immigration to FN. This explains activism Xavier Bertrand, candidate in the Nord-Pas-Calais and Picardy region where he will face Le Pen.