France is ramping up its immigration enforcement by deploying an extra 4,000 police, gendarmes, and military personnel at train stations and on buses to conduct checks for illegal migrants. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has emphasized that this operation, scheduled over two days, will monitor movements toward neighboring countries and within major cities. Retailleau has been vocal about his stringent stance on immigration, stating that illegal immigrants are not welcome, and earlier proposed tougher criteria for citizenship, highlighting a significant shift in France's immigration policies.
Over the next 48 hours, we'll be mobilising 4,000 gendarmes, police officers, customs officers and troops from Operation Sentinelle to stop illegal immigrants.
Since the beginning of the year, we have stopped 47,000 illegal immigrants.
What I want to say, in the strongest and most definitive way, is that illegal immigrants are not welcome in France.
In early May, Retailleau presented another memo, which he described as a 'break with the past', aimed at tightening the criteria for naturalising foreigners.
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