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9:02 p.m. : #Immigration: @Elisabeth_Borne expressed her confidence in finding agreements with the “republican arc”. “Our migration policy is a balance between firm respect for the law and the frank integration of those to whom we grant residence and asylum”.#DirectAN https://t.co/rKwGwa2lqV
9:02 p.m. : “We heard several interventions of pure postures, pure demagoguery and sometimes pure lies, without any proposal. In particular on the side of the RN who was able to take up word for word the speeches which are a good fifty years old”, deplores @Elisabeth_Borne. https://t.co/4pCmgZ2VEU
9:02 p.m. : The debate on immigration policy continued in the Assembly. At the podium, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne castigated the positions of the RN and La France insoumise.
7:12 p.m. : Let’s take stock of the timetable for this bill, the outline of which was presented today by the government: the text will also be debated without a vote in the Senate next week, then sent to the Council of State in the process . Then will come the time for the official presentation to the Council of Ministers, at the turn of the months of January and February, before a parliamentary debate in the spring.
6:53 p.m. : The group presidents now follow one another on the podium to debate the text. Pierre-Henry Dumont (LR) is currently speaking.
6:46 p.m. : At odds with Marine Le Pen on this topic, Mathilde Panot also denounces the government bill and the “xenophobic rantings” of the executive. The president of the LFI group calls on her colleagues to “come to your senses” in terms of the vision of immigration, “very weak” in our country. “Humanism is a moral requirement that applies to all”she concludes.
6:44 p.m. : Marine Le Pen proclaims her opposition to the text promoted by the government: she denounces “the scandalous abuse of the right of asylum”, “the pitiful mess of the management of migrants from theocean viking“ or “accelerated third-worldization” which, according to her, is at work in France. “I still prefer immigrationists from La France insoumise to the shameful immigrationists who have been populating political life for 40 years”mocks the president of the RN group in the National Assembly.
6:31 p.m. : On this text, the government will try, as a priority, to convince the right-wing deputies to have the bill passed in the spring, but it is not won, as we explain to you here.
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6:24 p.m. : Unsurprisingly, the government and the majority jointly advocate a balance between “firmness” and “humanity” on this extremely divisive text. Evidenced by the “at the same time” defended and instantly assumed by Aurore Bergé, for whom there can be no“openness without responsibility” in matters of immigration.
6:21 p.m. : “Heads, Heads” : at the rostrum of the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé points “the caricature” opposition in terms of vision of immigration, some accused of being too repressive, others castigated for their supposed laxity. The president of the Renaissance group believes for her part that“we must review our law to guarantee that of foreigners”.
6:14 p.m. : Bertrand Pancher advocates, on behalf of the LIOT group (Freedoms, independents, overseas and territories), “a good immigration policy” made of “simplification” active “territorial needs”.
6:11 p.m. : It is now the turn of the various political groups of the Assembly to express themselves on the contours of this future bill. Speaking first, the communist Elsa Faucillon sees in this text the expression of a “xenophobic view” without “humanity”.
6:07 p.m. : “The link between work and integration must be rehabilitated”says Olivier Dussopt, according to whom “notour system is inefficient and unfair”. The Minister of Labor defends, on the employment side, “neither naivety nor idealism”. In particular, he worked to defend the residence permit for “jobs in tension”.
6:02 p.m. : “The bill will make it possible to very significantly improve the public service provided to all our fellow citizens, will not see foreigners as potential criminals but will not be naive”concludes Gérald Darmanin.
5:57 p.m. : “The right to asylum refused will be worth the obligation to leave French territory”announces Gérald Darmanin with this bill.
5:53 p.m. : “We will increase the integration budget by 25%”promises in turn Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior.
5:49 p.m. : “We can only integrate with dignity if our rights are firmly respected”, declares @Elisabeth_Borne, promising a “balanced text”.>> “We are aiming for efficiency, useful measures and concrete effects. We are not seeking to divide .” #Immigration #DirectAN https://t.co/d3LvbMIHhk
5:49 p.m. : With this bill, “we aim for efficiency, useful measures and concrete effects. We do not seek to divide”assures the Prime Minister about this very divisive text, on a flammable subject.
5:42 p.m. : “We want to aim for a six-month deadline for the entire procedure.”
Processing times for files by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra) “diminished considerably”welcomes Elisabeth Borne, who however wants to shorten these deadlines through this text debated in Parliament in the spring.
5:36 p.m. : “Zero immigration is neither desirable nor possible” no more than one “unregulated immigration”defends Elisabeth Borne about a text that wants to mix “firmness” and “humanity”, objectives “who can gather widely on these benches”.
5:31 p.m. : At the rostrum of the National Assembly, Elisabeth Borne explains the philosophy of the immigration bill, which will be officially presented to the Council of Ministers at the end of January or the beginning of February. France must say “who we want” and “who we don’t want” welcome, explains the Prime Minister.
4:12 p.m. : A few hours before the debate on the immigration bill, activists and leaders of some fifteen associations gathered this afternoon in front of the National Assembly to denounce the government’s migration policy judged “hostile”. “We need a change of vision on migration policies”, valued the general secretary of the association La Cimade.
10:11 a.m. : While the government’s immigration bill is being debated in the National Assembly today, several associations are concerned about a “continued deterioration of the rights of migrants”. The president of Amnesty International France castigates a text of law which “cuts a little more the right to asylum, the right to a normal family life, the rights of the child and the right to a fair trial”. Our article to read here.