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The destination is a rather small area that seems lost in the middle of the huge buildings in the neighborhood. And yet the proximity to the airport is not just a mere coincidence, but closely linked to a number that has by now become infamous in France: 25.000 - This is the objective French Prime Minister Fillon has set for 2008. Does this number represent the teachers that will be employed to stop the decline of the education system? Not quite. Or maybe the social housings that are to be built to give shelter to the 16.000 homeless minors in the streets of France? Desirable, but still no. Fillon's ambitious project is to deport 25.000 paperless immigrants this year, some of which are being held in custody in camps that have been built to this purpose. One of these camps is the Centre de rétention administrative in Cornebarrieu, close to Toulouse, with a capacity of 126 detainees.