French President raises immigration problem at PACE

"We should jointly combat trafficking of immigrants,” French President Emmanuel Macron said.

French bureau of Report informs that he spoke at the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

According to him, there are networks that sell "desire" of refugee status in Europe: "They deceive the people, who have not any right to seek refugee status in Europe and create opportunities for them to come to the continent. We should expand our efforts against such groups and fight together. "

Macron said that the influx of immigrants causes damage for the countries. "The influx of people, who have no right to obtain a refugee status, weakens the functioning of the system, that suffers from the overwhelming majority of migrants. Thus, it delays the cases of people who really deserve the right for asylum. Even it sometimes takes 3-4 years to consider their appeals. Such cases also doom them to poverty.”