Last week, when the first measures of the Immigration Bill were presented, the Minister of the Interior said he assumes “a form of double penalty” for foreign delinquents.
Le Monde with AFP
The Immigration bill, launched by Gérald Darmanin, and whose examination was to start in the Senate in October, is postponed. It will be preceded by a “big debate,” announced the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in a Figaro interview Published Wednesday August 3.
“In October, we will put a great debate on immigration on the agenda before a finalized bill is presented. We have a proposal for a legislative text, But for such a subject, two months of consultation are not too much, “said Darmanin.
on a daily basis
The great debate will be preceded, “at the request of the Prime Minister”, Elisabeth Borne, from consultation to the Ministry of the Interior “with all the parties, the social partners, the associations and the representatives of the company civil “, specifies Mr. Darmanin.
appeal before a single judge
This consultation will be “on the basis of our proposals,” continued the minister, some of which have already been announced in recent days: for example, the packaging of a residence permit to “obtain a Certificate proving the mastery of French and the acceptance of the values of the Republic “.
He also listed the measures envisaged to effectively expel foreigners offenders, such as the abolition of the provisions prohibiting him (marriage, arrival in France before the age of 13). Last week, at the BFM-TV microphone , he said to assume” a form Double penalty “for foreigners offenders, namely sanction then expulsion. Such proposals confirm “the alignment with the position of the far right” of Mr. Darmanin, according to SOS-Racisme.
Among the new measures, the Minister also proposes that an expulsion decision be pronounced “as soon as the request for asylum” is rejected “and that appeals to the National Court of Asylum for a judge unique, against three currently.
To this battery of measures would be added the “strong reduction in the number of applicable procedures” in terms of expulsion to reduce the time for appeal and “simplify the rules of litigation of foreigners”. In this, he says he is based on the recommendations of the Council of State and the report of the Senator François-Noël Buffet (Les Républicains).
“Additional quotas by business”
Gérald Darmanin also wishes to accelerate the dematerialization of the files of immigration candidates by experimenting with “back-off” pre-construction “to make the queues disappear before the prefectures.
Finally, on the component of economic immigration, the Minister says he is ready with the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, “to imagine additional quotas by profession or by sector in tension”, like the hotel, the construction or catering.
The debate on professional immigration quotas, antique of the right and scarecrow on the left, had been relaunched in October 2019 by Edouard Philippe, then Prime Minister, but these had not been established.