Immigration hits new records in France - may be by design
The year 2022 was a historic year for immigration in France. Never before had that country seen such an influx of both legal and illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the proportion of those deported after having been denied asylum remains absurdly low....
Last year, France — a country of 68 million inhabitants — handed out over 320,000 first-time residence permits to foreigners, which represents a 17 percent increase over the previous year....
In the meantime, the number of asylum seekers — most of them economic illegal immigrants filing for asylum to avoid deportation — exceeded the 150,000 mark for the first time last year, reaching 168,699 asylum requests...
The only immigration figure that remains stubbornly low is the number of deportations: Only 11,410 illegal immigrants [and illegal aliens] were expelled in 2022...
With legal and illegal immigration getting worse over the years in spite of rising hostility towards open border measures, the government’s policy on immigration looks more like intended social engineering than just bad management....