Everything is questioned. Everything is on stand-by. At the Ministry of the Interior, while the entourage of Gérald Darmanin had announced work on a text of immigration law, the day after the presidential election, the result of the legislative elections called into question the dynamics. “We were asked to prepare a text three weeks ago and we were finally told that there was no more, given the context in the National Assembly”reported, at the end of June, a senior official of Place Beauvau.
The government was counting on the orientation and programming bill of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi) – supposed to end in the Chamber before the end of the year – to introduce legislative provisions on immigration.
If the first mandate of the Head of State was the occasion for a thematic law, the Asylum and Immigration Law, known as the “Collomb Law”, and a series of additional measures at the end of the “debate” organized in the National Assembly, at the end of 2019, Emmanuel Macron did not go to the end of his reforming desire.
“The problem is always the ability to renewbelieves a prefect. In the population, it is a concern. » “When you see the extreme right rising, you ask yourself questionsabounds a former executive of the general direction of foreigners in France. We have a code for the entry and residence of foreigners very protective and low referral rates. More effective distancing measures are needed. »
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The Head of State had listed a few promises during his campaign, including the strengthening of resources to remove foreigners who have had their asylum applications rejected, so that “the refusal of asylum will be worth obligation to leave the French territory [OQTF] »or even the reform of the litigation of foreigners, to fight against “the multiplication of remedies”.
Gérald Darmanin’s record in this area has not given full satisfaction, despite the minister’s declared voluntarism. “He succeeded in having people registered with the FSPRT taken back by their countries of origin. [fichier des signalements pour la prévention de la radicalisation à caractère terroriste], but, on people presenting public order disturbances, the distancing machine seized up”, analyzes an adviser to Matignon. In question: the limitation of travel due to the pandemic and the mixed results of the strategy consisting in depriving visas of countries – in particular Algeria and Morocco – reluctant to take back their nationals in an irregular situation.
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