As the immigration bill arrives at the National Assembly on Monday November 27, two deputies from the National Rally visited the administrative detention center in Vincennes, in Ile-de-France.
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Just before discussing the immigration bill, examined in committee at the National Assembly on Monday, November 27, two RN deputies Edwige Diaz (Gironde) and Yoann Gillet (Gard) went to the Vincennes administrative detention center where they are detained nearly 200 foreigners awaiting their expulsion. A visit during which they were confronted with reality.
What is first striking is the dilapidation of the place: aging premises, prefabricated premises within which foreigners are free to come and go. MPs Edwige Diaz and Yoann Gillet first stop in front of prayer rugs installed in a corridor. They multiply the photos while the residents try to attract their attention. Half are North African, Amine agrees to show her room and tell part of her story: “Yes, I work. I make Amazon deliveries, I’m a driver…” The Gard deputy asks him about his situation: “How did you manage to work without being in a legal situation? With a false identity, a usurped identity?” Amine agrees and he is not the only one in this situation. A little further away, there is a Guinean who worked for a town hall, a Togolese in the construction industry.
“Communities have a responsibility.”
Edwige Diaz, RN deputyat franceinfo
Edwige Diaz asks to see the salary slips, and she gets annoyed: “We have still heard the names of large companies which recruit illegal workers.” People who work in private companies but not only: “People who have been apprentices within communities: the Paris town hall and the Saint-Omer town hall. I find that communities have a responsibility when it comes to making a call for change in terms of immigration.”
His colleague Yoann Gillet also denounces the lack of effective expulsions: two thirds of people under an obligation to leave the territory (OQTF) end up emerging free from the center, because their country of origin does not accept to take them back: “If we say that countries which refuse to give consular passes will see development aid cut, that their nationals will not be given visas, believe me that these countries will give consular passes for “all the people we want to expel.” We just need firmness, assures the RN deputy, a sentence that he will undoubtedly repeat in the weeks to come.
