A senior French deep state official is facing calls to resign after admitting he delayed a report on immigration failures until after a crucial parliamentary vote on nascent reforms.
a report The Court of Audit, the independent government body responsible for tracking the use of public funds, said last week that fighting illegal immigration costs French taxpayers a staggering €1.8 billion a year, more than total police spending. It was determined that this amount corresponds to 10% of the total. This revelation fundamentally undermines the assumption advanced by left-wing and globalist forces that mass immigration brings net benefits to society.
Meanwhile, the government's performance was also criticized by an audit report that found border controls were “very limited” and that border police only recorded identity records of migrants actually apprehended. . Even then, border officials routinely refused to enter their identities into national information systems, which would have helped the government later deport them, the report said. points out.
Additionally, the report found that border officials often fail to conduct basic police background checks on undocumented immigrants, potentially exposing the country to further violence and terrorist attacks.
The damning review into the government's performance and costs to the public was due to be published on December 13, but was put on hold by Auditor General Pierre Moscovici until last week. former member He was a member of the Communist Revolutionary Union and later served as Minister of Finance in the Socialist government of the Eurocrats and former French President François Hollande.
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The leftist deep state bureaucrat argued that he was justified in holding off on the report, given that it was originally scheduled to be released during a parliamentary debate on immigration reform.Moscovici claimed He claimed that the vote on the immigration bill could have been “sabotaged” by informing the public of the government's failures on immigration.
Mr Moscovici went on to claim that he “did not want this report to be distorted” by domestic political debates, adding: “At a time when rational debate was rarely heard, we “We were in a real crisis,” he said.
His decision to delay the publication of the report came as far-left and right-wing populists from Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) banded together to block the first draft of President Emmanuel Macron's immigration bill in parliament. . The bill was later amended and pushed forward following concessions from Le Pen, but MPs were not given the opportunity to consider all the recommendations in the Auditor General's report.
There are growing calls for Moscovici to be removed from his powerful position in the deep state over his attempts to withhold information from the public. Laurent Wauquiès, the centrist president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council, said on Sunday that Moscovici “must resign.”
“Pierre Moscovici claims that he deliberately delayed the publication of the report from the Auditor General so that its conclusions would not be known during parliamentary deliberations on the immigration law,” declared the politician Les Républiques. did. “This is a grave violation of our democracy and the most fundamental constitutional duties of the Board of Auditors.”
