The newly formed French government plans to adopt another, tougher immigration bill next year, and leading the charge is hardline interior minister Bruno Retailleau, reports Yahoo! News.
It is the latest in a series of moves under French president Emmanuel Macron to tackle immigration, a favourite talking point of the far right.
Shortly after Bruno Retailleau took over as interior minister he made it clear he had a “law-and-order” agenda, vowing among other things to crack down on illegal immigration.
“The French people want more order order in the streets, order at the borders,” he said upon taking up his new role in late September after more than two months of political impasse in France.
Retailleau has denounced “mass immigration”, suggesting that France could be overwhelmed by migratory flows in a rhetorical shift that echoes the long-time refrains of the far right.