2024-01-27 17:20:05
He wanted to move very quickly, after the partial censorship of the Constitutional Council. The President of the Republic promulgated from New Delhi, where he was traveling on Friday, the law on immigration in the Saturday’s official newspaper. Article 1, Articles 3, 4, and many others: each time the JO specifies the mention “provisions declared non-compliant with the Constitution by the decision of the Constitutional Council of January 25, 2024”.
The ten articles of the “law to control immigration, improve integration” judged to be consistent with the text on which the entire French legislative structure is based, thus come into force. It is now necessary to commit to respecting “the principles of the Republic”, such as freedom of expression and conscience or equality between women and men, to obtain a residence permit. Likewise, the obligation to speak the French language, and to “understand common expressions” in particular, is reinforced.
Provisions, at the heart of the government’s initial bill, will facilitate expulsions in the event of an offense and the removal of residence permits. The law notably removes the protections enjoyed by certain categories of foreigners, such as those who arrived in France before the age of 13. The departments now have the possibility of refusing child welfare support (ASE) to foreigners aged 18 to 21 targeted by an obligation to leave the territory, the famous OQTF.
The response that public authorities can provide to delinquent foreigners is also greatly strengthened; Friday, Gérald Darmanin brought the prefects together by videoconference to give them initial implementation instructions, even before the publication of the implementing decrees.
This morning, I brought together the prefects to ask them to apply the immigration law as soon as it is promulgated. In the coming hours, I will take several instructions, based on the new provisions permitted by the law, in particular against delinquent foreigners and against… pic.twitter.com/Wi1TaKtRwL
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) January 26, 2024
As for the government’s desire, before the hardening of debates, to regularize undocumented workers in so-called shortage professions, it depends on the discretionary power of prefects, who assess based on the economic reality of the department in which they work. authority of the State.
The Sages have challenged the form, not the substance, of numerous measures adopted under pressure from the right, with the support of the far right, such as the tightening of access to social benefits, annual migratory quotas voted by Parliament, the tightening of the criteria for family reunification… The Republicans denounced a “democratic hold-up” and “a coup d’état of law”, a “very worrying” questioning of the institutions, reacted the president of the Constitutional Council Laurent Fabius on France 5 Friday evening, highlighting a purely “legal” decision.
Possible Republican (LR) candidate for the 2027 presidential election, Laurent Wauquiez proposed, in an interview with the Parisian Today in France, that Parliament could have “the last word”, after the Constitutional Council, and that on immigration , the French are consulted by referendum.
“This is what a government wanted to do in Israel”, underlined Laurent Fabius in reference to an attempt at reform by Benjamin Netanyahu which pushed hundreds of thousands of Israelis to demonstrate, before being invalidated by the Supreme Court. “The Constitution, etymologically, is what holds us together,” insisted the former Prime Minister.
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