
Renaissance MP Charles Rodwell pleads with Le Figaro for the return of a Ministry of Immigration and National Identity in order to regain control of migration policy in France.
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The Ministry of Immigration and National Identity was created under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007.
His proposal risks getting people talking within Gabriel Attal's troops. It doesn't matter to him, Charles Rodwell wants to continue to "hammer" his "line". Speaking to Le Figaro, MP Renaissance pleads for the return of a ministry of immigration and national identity.
The elected official from Yvelines, whose so-called “Philippine” law extending the maximum period of detention of foreigners under OQTF was definitively adopted last June, believes that this ministerial portfolio, created under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, therefore deserves to be revisited.
“To regain control of immigration, we must put a pilot back on the plane. We must have a minister responsible for all migration policy,” argues Charles Rodwell, who recently published a parliamentary report on the cost of illegal immigration in France.
“In 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy was right. Today, the administrative bankruptcy of the State and the explosion of immigration to France are such that we…

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