The text, which must be presented in early 2023, provides for the creation of a residence permit for undocumented workers in “trades in tension”, who lack labor.
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“wherever we come, wherever we have been born, our country is called Solidarité”, could we read on the banner brandished at the head of the procession. On the occasion of International Migrant Day, several thousand people demonstrated, Sunday, December 18 in Paris, for the rights of undocumented migrants and to express their opposition to the “immigration” bill of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
The demonstrators, who answered the call of several collectives of undocumented migrants, aid associations or even unions (general confederation of labor (CGT) and solidarity), paraded between the door of the chapel And the Place de la République, where they arrived in the early afternoon. “We say to [Gérald] Darmanin that we are not offenders. We are workers,” said an activist interviewed in the procession. The text, which must be presented in early 2023, provides for the creation of a residence permit for undocumented workers in “trades in tension”, who lack labor.
“There is a regularization of sustainable and large undocumented undocumented,” said the France-Presse (AFP) agency Isabelle Enjalbert, president of Cimade Ile-de-France. However, the Darmanin bill provides “a minimum regularization, only in so-called” tension “sectors-among which there is not even the restoration!”, She stressed.
“We work here, we live here, we stay here”
“The undocumented migrants work, are often with the family, with school children. As they do not have papers, they are often in a situation almost slavery or exploitation in their professional activity. Now, this Party is not dealt with by the bill, which only responds to security aims, “said M me Enjalbert. The residence permit “Trades in tension” provided for by the government will be a renewable annual title, if the profession is “always in tension”.
“I want to have papers,” said Cintia, a Nigerian who has worked as a waitress in France since 2011. A few meters further, Oumou, from Côte d’Ivoire who arrived in 2012, said he obtained papers in papers 2020 but denounced “the difficulty in having them renewed”. “We work here, we live here, we stay here,” we could read on a banner. “Unplashes, in danger, we are not dangerous”, “Housing for all”, have chanted several demonstrators.