Overview

• The 48-hour operation mobilizes 4,000 gendarmes, police, customs officers and Sentinelle forces for nationwide immigration checks.
• Controls will focus on both arrivals and departures on train routes and bus lines serving French cities and neighboring countries.
• Since January, authorities have arrested 47,000 undocumented migrants and reported a 28% increase in interceptions in recent weeks.
• A similar two-day operation on May 20-21 resulted in more than 750 arrests under Retailleau’s intensified border policy.
• The interior minister noted a 24% drop in regularizations, a 14% decrease in naturalizations and a 14% rise in expulsions this year.