Budget: the government will create 4,000 accommodation places for asylum seekers

The government's “Immigration, asylum and integration” budget will increase by 2% next year, with additional resources mainly allocated to the creation of accommodation places for asylum seekers, according to the 2021 budget project unveiled on Monday .

"The care of pending asylum seekers represents nearly two-thirds of the mission's appropriations", to which 1.85 billion euros are now devoted, up slightly for 2021 after significant increases in 2018 ( + 22%), 2019 (+ 12%) and 2020 (+ 8%), underlines the draft finance law (PLF) adopted by the Council of Ministers.

Two types of structure concerned

The additional 37 million euros will make it possible "to finance the creation of 4,000 new accommodation places for asylum seekers", in order to "optimize orientation between different regions", the main difficulty which leads many migrants in a regular situation to get out of the care system dedicated to them.

A total of 3,000 places will be created in Reception Centers for Asylum Seekers (CADA), where they are accommodated pending the examination of their refugee status application, and 1,000 others in Reception Centers and examination of situations (CAES), a kind of first airlock allowing the orientation of a migrant according to his administrative situation. 

It is, we can read in the 2021 PLF, to "reduce the tensions observed in the regions facing the most important flows", in the first place Ile-de-France.

In addition to these 4,000 places, 2,000 others will also be funded "temporarily on the 'relaunch' mission", "in a context marked by the health crisis", further underlines the document.

Essentially, these are places (1,500) in the return preparation system, a program that allows an illegal alien to return to his country of origin for a sum of money.