"Do not send them back like ping pong because they end up worse than before". This is how Pope Francis spoke about migrants while meeting in Marseille with French President Emmanuel Macron. The 32-minute talk was initially not even scheduled, but it seems to have been put on the agenda thanks to French pressure. However, at the end of the day, beyond the discordant positions on migration, that conversation ended up bringing the elderly Argentine pontiff and the Jesuit-ruled high school alumnus even closer. Macron reportedly reiterated the French position to the Pope: "France has nothing to be ashamed of, it is a country of welcome and integration". Francis departed glooming about the fate of tens of thousands of people at the mercy of slavers. "They are slaves," he said, ". And we cannot fail to see. That's why I say migrants must be welcomed, integrated or accompanied. If you cannot integrate them, accompany them to their country but don't leave them in the hands of those people who exploit them, sell them". He adds, "There is no invasion of migrants, no to alarmist propaganda. The solution is not to reject, but to have regular flows".