Examination of the text began this Monday in the Senate and concern is growing. Immigrant defense associations are concerned about the government’s immigration bill, which they see as an “accumulation of repressive measures” and contrary to “humanist principles”, calling on parliamentarians to “reject” the text.
“The accumulation of repressive and security measures has become the guideline of the bill,” said Fanélie Carrey-Conte, general secretary of Cimade, during a press conference of 35 associations and collectives of undocumented immigrants. in Paris. The text, defended by the Ministers of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and of Labor Olivier Dussopt, provides for a battery of measures intended to facilitate the expulsions of foreigners responsible for disturbing public order, an integration component in particular for undocumented workers , as well as a reform of the asylum system.
“There is nothing wrong with this text,” criticizes Benoît Hamon, head of the NGO Singa
“It is terrible that in France, a country of human rights, we only associate migration issues with the assimilation of migrants/delinquents, with the words repression, stigmatization, expulsions, confinement,” listed the association leader. “Where is the welcome, the solidarity? When are we going to talk about the tragedies at the borders, the people who will continue to die on migratory routes? “, she added, believing that the bill is “not up to the challenges”.
“There is nothing wrong with this text,” former socialist minister Benoît Hamon, who now heads the NGO Singa, working for the socio-economic inclusion of refugees, told AFP. The bill, which will then be debated from December 11 in the National Assembly, “will probably be worse at the end” of its examination, because if the government “wants a majority, it is necessarily through a toughening” after an agreement with “the right, even the extreme right”, he anticipates.
Certain union centers, associations as well as academics also asked Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Monday to remove the amendments which “call into question the rights of the soil” for children born in France to foreign parents.