The announcement of the arrival of nearly 500 migrants in reception centers in the region (but not in the Alpes-Maritimes due to tensions at the border with Italy) from Calais has triggered a reaction from the “right-wing” who have chosen security as their electoral banner.
The National Front will present a motion to this effect at the next public session scheduled for November 3rd.
Regional President Christian Estrosi, fully engaged in the electoral campaign of his party’s primary, is completely aligned with the identity platform of his “champion” Nicolas Sarkozy, who has chosen this theme to win over the popular electorate drawn by the extreme right.
His reaction is strong, “I want to reaffirm with the greatest strength my total opposition” to the creation of “Calais micro-jungles.”
He denounces “the failure of almost five years in immigration matters, particularly having allowed the number of migrants in Calais to increase from less than a thousand in 2012 to over 10,000 today, nothing permits the Government, a few months from the presidential deadline, to play the apprentice sorcerer.”
With a short memory, he forgets to recall that the Calais center was the result of an agreement by the then Minister of the Interior (2003) with the British Government, his name is Nicolas Sarkozy!
Having become President of the Republic, he only created a Ministry of Immigration and National Identity without going beyond proclamations.
These statements clearly show that the debates are heavily influenced by electoral stakes to the point of denying facts, even though they are proven.
These grandstanding, these unrealistic bravadoes, are true insults to the general interest, which is to guarantee the security and authority of the State. In doing so, they dishonor political action with their electoralism, which plays with amalgams hoping to reap dividends through identity-based demagoguery.
All in vain: the “micro-jungles” of Calais foreshadow the future.
As “Le Monde” very rightly wrote in its editorial yesterday, the jungles of “Calais” illustrate what awaits Europeans and which their timid political leaders refuse to tell them. Immigration is not going to stop. It is just beginning. Within thirty-five years, the active population of an aging Europe will decrease from 270 to 200 million. By 2050-2060, Africa’s population – 1 billion inhabitants today – could double…
Faced with this truth and in the name of nearly 3,800 deaths since January 2016, a question becomes entirely legitimate: what if the root of all these ills is a vision of national identity that challenges the rule of law to break the unity of the nation and assert a reactionary right?
