Dominique de Villepin on 5 December 2006 called the fifth meeting of the Interministerial Committee on Immigration Control. The committee voted the third annual report to Parliament on the Government's immigration policy. Prime Minister de Villepin set forth the future guidelines for the policy.

In the current U.S. immigration debate, there is a disconnect between the native-born population's fears of losing control of political and economic power to newcomers and the structural needs of the American economy, which has come to depend on immigrant labor, said Alejandro Portes, professor of sociology at Princeton University, who spoke here during a Nov. 13 class on immigration issues.