It is a Marine Le Pen in the countryside who was visiting this Sunday in the department. A trip that began with the Police station at the borders of Perthus, on the highway. National Rally President meets with officers to discuss illegal immigration on the territory. With an ironic first statement “Here we are at what should be the border, which no longer is”.
Marine Le Pen then denounced an increase “dramatic” the number of arrests for illegal entry into French territory in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The PAF recorded 13,000 in 2021 against 11,000 in 2019. The opportunity for the presidential candidate to castigate the record of Emmanuel Macron’s government, and to recall his program: “Make Article 25 of the Shengen Code work, that is to say reestablish borders, while the immigration referendum will be voted on, which will give our country all the turnkey means to be able to fight effectively. against this illegal immigration. ”
The president of the RN then mentioned the lack of law enforcement personnel at the borders : “The means that are made available to our police and our gendarmerie to protect the borders are not sufficient means”, for Marine Le Pen, who proposes to increase the number of police and gendarmes by 37,000, with “a significant number that can be made available to our border police”.
Marine Le Pen who then went to Cerbères, another known passage for illegal immigration, then visited the administrative detention center in Perpignan, where foreigners are held while waiting to be expelled from the territory.