“Your job is to take in migrants and welcome them because they come out of love. And whether you like it or not, we’re an aging continent so you have to let them in,” Ylva Johansson, the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs.
Two years after his departure, Fabrice Leggeri opens up about his time at the EU border guard agency, Frontex. As the boss, he desperately wanted to protect European borders against illegal migrants strictly, but according to him, this was explicitly halted by the European Commission.
Frontex, officially known as the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, is an EU agency responsible for coordinating border control efforts across the European Union’s external borders. It was established in 2004 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland.
From 2015 to 2022, Leggeri headed Frontex. During that time, he made a name for himself as a strong supporter of a strict migration policy. However, he now says that at that time, he was actively opposed by the European Commission, which had precisely the opposite in mind.
In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, the Frenchman explains the message he repeatedly heard from EU leadership. “Bring the migrants here and welcome them. Whether you like it or not, we are an aging continent, and that is why you must let them in,” he recalls.
However, Leggeri aimed to guard the borders, which is also the main branch of Frontex. But he felt thwarted and abandoned, he says in the interview. The French government pressured him to resign, he adds. Germany was also not very enthusiastic about his work.
In November, the European Commission launched a proposal to provide work and free language courses to illegal migrants who have no chance of asylum. Family reunification would also be possible. European Commissioner Ylva Johansson states this is necessary to address the upcoming labor shortages in European countries.
Recently, Ylva Johansson, the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, claimed that the Union needs to take in one million migrants a year, and if it is not done, the Europeans will starve.
Great Replacement!
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Get Ready Europe 4.5 Million Migrants Will Be Allowed to Legally Enter Europe Next Year! Without them, you Will Die of Hunger! (Can't make this up)
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Now, French media reports that the Social Democrat allegedly ordered a former head of the European Border and Coast Guard agency Frontex to welcome migrants who make it to the Union illegally. The former head of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, claims that Swedish EU Commissioner Ylva Johannsson told him to welcome illegal migrants.
According to Leggeri, Johansson should have given a new directive to the director general in 2019, shortly after her arrival as commissioner for internal affairs.
“Your job is to take in migrants and welcome them because they come out of love. And whether you like it or not, we’re an aging continent, so you have to let them in,” she reportedly said. The EU denies that Ylva Johansson would have said that.
“The statements made by Fabrice Leggeri about the EU’s migration policy are simply false,” states the European Commission’s spokesman.
For Fabrice Leggeri, the priority of the Frontex agency’s mandate and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice was to maintain the EU’s external borders and, therefore, to fight illegal migrants crossing European borders. Johansson, for her part, insisted on the Frontex agency’s second mandate respecting the basic rights of asylum seekers.
Changing of the guard In 2022, the Frenchman decided to step down. He was succeeded by Hans Leijtens, who sees immigration as an inevitable phenomenon. In an interview with Welt am Sonntag, Leijtens said: “All that talk about ‘holding people back’ and ‘closing borders’ cannot always be our narrative.”
Leggeri is on the European electoral list of Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen’s parar. This party is determined to combat mass immigration. The European elections are set for June, when Europeans can cast their votes to elect a new anti-open borders European Parliament.
The experiences from Frontex seem to have left a deep mark when, before the EU elections this summer, he joined the national conservative Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen’s party. The 55-year-old is third on the party’s list.
“Today I choose to put my experience and expertise at the service of the French,” he wrote on X.
The party’s goal is clear – to regain control over the borders of the EU and France.
“Leading Frontex for almost seven years and working for the state for about 30 years, especially in security and immigration, makes this decision coherent,” he added.
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