2023-04-27 02:58:16
Pleading for a “revolution” in immigration, the President of the Republicans Éric Ciotti called on Wednesday for a referendum on the subject to modify the Constitution and France’s commitments in terms of family reunification.
“We need a referendum to change the framework” in order to “modify our Constitution, our conventional commitments, in particular the European Court of Human Rights which authorizes family reunification with its article 8”, he said. on Europe 1. “We are undergoing a real submersion without any real reaction from the public authorities (…) Never in the history of France have we welcomed as many foreigners as in 2022. This is the absolute record”, he estimated.
Without going so far as to ask to leave the ECHR, he pleaded for “reservations of interpretation” because “we cannot remain in this situation where we are undergoing a wave of migration”. In passing, he listed a list of proposals. “We no longer need any rights for illegal immigrants, more social benefits from the first day for regulars” and “that we process asylum applications at the border, we must stop family reunification and review the code of Nationality “.
A unique text on immigration
“Is Mr. Macron ready to enshrine all this in law? I doubt it, and I also doubt that we have the capacity in Parliament to have a text adopted, even taking into account the opposition in the majority, ”added the boss of LR. The head of state had advocated Sunday “a single text” on immigration to “toughen our rules” in terms of expulsion while improving integration.
As for unaccompanied foreign minors, Éric Ciotti, who will be going to Morocco next week with a delegation of Republicans, deplored “incredible naivety”, wondering “why we don’t immediately send them back to the countries of origin where they a family “.
“What happens in Mayotte can happen in mainland France”
Asked about the situation in Mayotte, the elected official estimated that “there are means of pressure to put on the Comoros” via development aid or visas. The “Wuambushu” operation to evacuate a slum “is welcome and I support the Minister of the Interior in this process”, he added. According to him, “what is happening in Mayotte is a signal for us because tomorrow it could happen in mainland France”.
In parallel, the annual report of five associations of defense of migrants, of which La Cimade published this Wednesday “confirmed a trivialized use of detention, too often abusive and sometimes in unworthy conditions” within the 25 detention centers in France (including four in Overseas Sea).
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