Overview
- France Terre d’Asile’s plan groups five measures it says would yield net gains for the State and Social Security, led by €2.9 billion a year from bringing 250,000 undocumented workers into declared employment.
- Other quantified items include €14.6 million by prioritising asylum‑dedicated housing over emergency shelters, €139 million by allowing asylum seekers to work earlier, €41 million by issuing fewer inefficient OQTFs, and €219 million by halting planned detention‑centre expansion.
- Najat Vallaud‑Belkacem calls current policy a human and fiscal “double waste,” while director Vincent Beaugrand argues that faster integration is the most responsible budget approach.
- Criticism from commentators and the Observatoire de l’immigration et de la démographie disputes the calculations, warning that the study omits costs and second‑order effects tied to regularisation and policy shifts.
- The debate unfolds as the draft 2026 budget directs larger increases to enforcement under programme 303 than to integration under programme 104, and no government adoption of FTDA’s proposals has been reported.