This announcement comes a month before the examination of the immigration bill in the Senate. But the government had already mentioned this objective of 3,000 places a few months ago.
Each center will have a capacity “about a hundred seats”. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that the government would “double the places in detention centers” to bring them to “3,000” by 2027, in the Parisian posted online Saturday October 7. These new administrative detention centers (CRA), intended for undocumented immigrants awaiting their expulsion, will be located in eleven cities, detailed the Ministry of the Interior to AFP: Dijon, Oissel, Nantes, Béziers, Aix- in Provence, Goussainville, Nice, Olivet, Mérignac, as well as in Dunkirk and Mayotte.
Since 2017, the number of detention places has increased “from 1,488 to 1,869 places”, we said at Place Beauvau. In total, 15,922 people were detained last year in mainland France, and 27,643 overseas, according to the annual report of migrant defense associations.
“Regularize on a case-by-case basis”
This announcement comes a month before the examination in the Senate of the immigration bill, postponed several times, and which should make the expulsion of delinquent foreigners a priority. The government had already mentioned this objective of 3,000 places a few months ago. But another part of the text, on the regularization of undocumented workers in so-called professions “in tension”arouses hostility from the right.
Asked by readers of Parisian on this aspect, Gérald Darmanin promised that there would be no “no draft” and that it was “to regularize, on a case-by-case basis, those who have been there for more than three years in France”. “Let’s stop being hypocrites”he said, ensuring that he was passing “(his) time receiving letters from parliamentarians of all parties to ask (him) for papers”.