The millions provided to France will double the number of gendarmes on the coast to 200 and pay for the use of surveillance technologies like drones.
He is pursuing a similar program of $28 million last November and more than $110 million from 2015 against illegal immigrants.
But Mr Dumont said: “The truth is that we cannot prevent everyone from crossing because there are more people and the beach is bigger. So they [the British people] They give more money from their own taxes which is going to be wasted. It will hurt the relationship between the two countries.
“The British government is giving too much money to the French authorities to increase security on the French coast, which is fundamentally something that does not work. We have seen it. We have seen that more money does not mean that 400 km, 500 km, 600 km of coastline will be stopped because we cannot monitor them. .
“On Monday, you had 28 small boats going to sea. 28 patrols could not land at the same time. This would only be possible if we had wires, cameras and fences. . »
MS Patel and her French envoy, Gerald Massa Durman, the Home Secretary, are seeking to persuade the EU to accept the Dublin Agreement as an alternative, which aims to help European countries share the burden asylum seekers across the continent.
Since Brexit killed that treaty, Britain has failed to secure a deal to remove all immigrants who have crossed their borders with any of the EU countries and must have sought refuge in the first safe country they entered.
READFrance beat Mexico as Brazil beat Germany in Olympics openerThe UK government's long-term strategy – Effective closure of asylum for illegal immigrants, but acceptance of those coming to the UK with a deal ahead of the government – hinges on negotiating post-Brexit Dublin-style deals with other such countries.
For French politicians, such as Mr Dumont, however, there is a clear bias in favor of such a deal – that Britain should prevent the “fair share” of immigrants from crossing the English Channel into boats with applications operating on the European continent.
In any negotiation with the UK, this would constitute a possible breach of contract, but Mr Dumont said: “We have had four times as many asylum claims as the UK, so we are playing our part . The truth is that the UK is not taking its share of the burden of asylum seekers now.
