France Deports Record Number of North African Migrants, Report Reveals

The parliamentary report, published by the newspaper Le Parisien, has helped to highlight the cases of deportations of illegal immigrants in France, their nationalities as well as an assessment of the related expenses. The study first focused on the cases of undocumented immigrants.

In 2018, the cost of deportations was estimated at 500 million euros. According to the report, cited by le360, "the number of forced deportations has never been so high in ten years. And their cost to public finances amounted to the trifling sum of half a billion euros last year. Enough to whet the interest of the deputies in charge of the Asylum-Immigration-Integration mission, whose annual global envelope for the State is 1.7 billion euros".

1525 Algerian nationals and 1161 Moroccans were deported from France, ranking 4th and 5th among the countries concerned by deportation cases. Albania takes first place with 2100 cases, followed by Romania with 1900 deportees.

In addition, the parliamentary report recommends "assisted returns" whose costs are less expensive than forced deportations, 2500 euros instead of 13,800 euros.