“Darmanin will not lay down his law”: around a thousand people demonstrated this Friday in Paris to denounce the adoption of the controversial bill on immigration carried by the Minister of the Interior, noted a journalist from the AFP.
“On a case by case basis, we don’t want it, regularization of all undocumented immigrants”, “no one is illegal”, chanted the demonstrators who marched from the Place de la République to the Place du Châtelet, in the call of collectives of undocumented immigrants and the Solidarity March.
“This racist law that criminalizes us”
“The law has been passed but we will not give up,” Ahamada Siby, spokesperson for the collective of undocumented immigrants from Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), told AFP. “We must all stand up to block this racist law that criminalizes us. »
“We are here to stand alongside undocumented immigrants, but above all to denounce this racist and xenophobic immigration law, particularly for non-community foreign students,” underlines Pauline Lebaron, co-general secretary of the Student Union, demanding the “pure and simple withdrawal” of the bill.
In Bordeaux, several hundred people marched, without incident, in the city center Friday evening to protest against the immigration law, noted AFP. “Regularization of undocumented immigrants”, “We are all children of immigrants”, “air, open the borders” launched the demonstrators, including many students and retirees, gathered at the call of left-wing organizations and of student unions.
What about the Constitutional Council?
Adopted forceps on Tuesday by Parliament, the immigration bill notably restricts the payment of social benefits for foreigners, establishes migration quotas, calls into question the automaticity of land law and reestablishes an “offense of illegal residence”.
This text, which caused an open crisis within the presidential majority, was voted for by the National Rally which saw it as a consecration of the “national priority” that it defends.
In an interview on France 5 on Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron declared that he “supported” the adoption of the bill, denying any far-right inspiration and assuring that the French were “waiting” for this text. The bill must now pass through the filter of the Constitutional Council before the law is promulgated by the Head of State.