2023-11-15 00:23:11
The president of the LR group, Bruno Retailleau, during a review session of the “immigration” bill, in the Senate, November 6, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “LE MONDE”
The “immigration” bill was adopted by the Senate on Tuesday, November 14, by 210 votes to 115, considerably toughened by the government and the senatorial majority. Anxious to secure the vote on its text in a hemicycle which has only forty Macronist elected officials, the executive highlighted the ” compromise “ that he built with the right and the center, and defended the” balance “ proposed measures. “Firmness against delinquent foreigners, better integration conditions, simplification of procedures, this is the government’s bill”listed the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, after the solemn vote of the senators.
But for the left and the associations, the account is not there. Not only was the measure aimed at creating full regularization for certain undocumented workers reduced to a possibility left in the hands of the prefects, but the text became “an infamous foil”criticized Europe Ecology-Les Verts senator from Bouches-du-Rhône Guy Benarroche. “The Senate examination has broken down dikes that we previously thought were impassable”, alerted a group of 35 organizations, including Doctors of the World, Catholic Relief and the Human Rights League. Even Unicef said “deeply concerned” by the consequences of the text on children.
It is difficult to summarize the provisions of a law which has gone from 27 articles to around a hundred now. While Mr. Darmanin had mainly communicated his wish to strengthen the “double penalty” by removing protections for the removal of certain foreigners, such as those who arrived in France before the age of 13, “all areas of foreigners’ law are affected”, regrets Anna Sibley, from the Immigrant Information and Support Group (Gisti). “This text bears the mark of the extreme right and has integrated all the possible clichés on immigration”supports Pierre Henry, president of the France Fraternités association.
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“An unworthy drift”
Restriction of land rights for children born in France to foreign parents; abolition of state medical aid; tightening of the conditions for family reunification, student migration and the issuance of a sick foreign residence permit; restriction of access to social rights; reinstatement of the offense of illegal residence; increase in the means of detention of asylum seekers; withdrawal of a residence permit in the event of non-compliance with “principles of the Republic” ; exclusion of people without a residence permit from the right to emergency accommodation…
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