It is a problem o political communication

The sans-papiers are lining up the agenda o the Minister o the Interior, without that it could, or now, oppose. As he arri ed to ote in the Parliament with a relati e ease its new immigration law that Toughens conditions o entry and residence o aliens in rance, Nicolas Sarkozy seems to merely on the record o the school children and undocumented. He preaches " irmness" and any threat o deportation is percei ed by part o the iew as an act o inhumanity; He decides to regularize certain amilies, and it risk back to the base o its electorate.

These adjustments might largely exceed the irst estimates o "720 amilies concerned" or "2,000 people", as indicated in June the Minister. The statements in "The world" o Yannick white, Director General o the Pre ecture o police o Paris police, stating that "thousands o amilies" would be regularised in the outcome o the procedure pro ided by the circular o 13 June, ueled the contro ersy. Nicolas Sarkozy denied these remarks by promising to "make public igures". The Minister may say more a ter met Ree es on July 18. "Management meetings" with the General Secretaries o pre ectures are multiplying to harmonize the interpretation o the criteria including "e ecti e schooling" o one o the children since September 2005, the birth in rance or the arri al o one o the children be ore the age o 13 or the "desire o integration" o amilies.

Political communication

At the time o its mo e to Rabat, today, at the Euro-A rican Con erence on migration (read page 6), the Minister could recall its political line "to hal way between humanity and irmness", ocusing instead on the second: should "rea irm that the objecti e o the 25,000 renewed border will be held in 2006, the charters continue (76 Romanians come to be returned to Bucharest).(,NDLR), that the major young undocumented migrants will be not be regularized (a Moroccan student o nineteen years was deported riday, Editor's note), nor the people dependent on the Dublin con ention () ", said in his entourage. Yet the Department has set aside the deportation o a Chechen amily in this ramework. says "a procedural bug" Place Beau au. But it shows the embarrassment o the Minister, who hopes that "to back e erything is returned in the order".

The situation also concern the Prime Minister, who called riday to a oid the "contro ersies". "". "I thousands o people are actually regulated, is beyond the scope o policy since 2002", commented on in the cabinet o Dominique de illepin, while each year, approximately 20,000 persons are regulated "on a case by case". "It is a problem o political communication." By circulating the rumor o a collecti e regularization, this would create an e ect o considerable air. "Associations responsible or the mobilization against e ictions maintain pressure. They occupied the home o the "Ombudsman" Arno Klars eld or se eral hours riday. They belie e that 4,000 amilies could be a ected. or the only Pre ecture o Paris, 2.800 appointments were awarded Thursday without starting 1,000 made records a coup by the Education network without borders. But, since the clash with the Minister o the Interior, the pre ecture is reluctant to pro ide new data.