2023-05-07 11:08:12
The deputies LR Aurélien Pradié and Pierre-Henri Dumont estimate, in a tribune at the Sunday newspaper, that we must put an end to family immigration. They want to move to a chosen and overqualified labor immigration, proposing a referendum of shared initiative.
Judging that “migratory chaos is gradually taking hold of the daily lives of our fellow citizens”, the two elected officials consider that the postponement of the immigration bill, postponed in the fall by the executive, “constitutes a major political resignation “.
They believe that “the quota policy is not up to the migratory challenge” and that it is now necessary “to move from underqualified forced family immigration to overqualified chosen work immigration”. For this, they hope to file, “with several of (their) fellow deputies, (…) in the coming weeks, a referendum of shared initiative (RIP)”.
“Five years of legal presence” before accessing “non-contributory benefits”
The Constitution makes it possible to organize such a referendum on the initiative of at least 185 parliamentarians supported by a tenth of the voters (4.87 million). The use of a RIP has so far never succeeded. The last two requests, filed by the left on pensions, were rejected by the Constitutional Council.
Aurélien Pradié and Pierre-Henri Dumont wish to focus their proposal on “improving the return rate of illegal immigrants by automatically freezing the issuance of visas, residence permits, money transfers and public development aid for any country that does not grant not at least 50% of the consular laissez-passer required for deportation”.
They will also propose to condition “at five years of legal presence in the territory access to non-contributory benefits”. Finally, they are asking for the reinstatement of the double penalty which allows the expulsion from French territory of a foreigner convicted of a criminal offense once his sentence has been served.
At the end of April, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, who does not have a majority in the National Assembly, reached out to Les Républicains deputies on immigration, calling for a “compromise”. She ruled out the possibility of a referendum requested by the right.
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