The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR) estimated Thursday that there was “necessity” has “resume text” on immigration voted in 2023 and largely censored by the Constitutional Council.
“We need a supplemented law because we have already passed a law on immigration, it was censored mainly for formal reasons and therefore resuming the text, it is a necessity because we need a policy to regulate immigration. migratory flows that is complete and gives us the tools to act”declared the political leader on Europe 1 and Cnews.
The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau is preparing a bill on immigration for the beginning of 2025, essentially taking up the measures censored by the Constitutional Council, which the minister, then president of the LR group in the Senate, had largely contributed to add to the original text.
The very right-wing Minister of the Interior plans in particular to reduce the social rights of migrants so that the country is “less attractive”with the extension, for example, of the length of residence necessary for foreigners to benefit from family benefits. It also plans to extend the maximum time in administrative detention centers for foreigners. ” dangerous “and to toughen the conditions for family reunification.
“The French expect clarity, action and determination”estimated Gérard Larcher, praising “an expectation of the French” on the subject.
“I have often been someone who sought the path of balance but, on security issues, today, the time has come to speak clearly, to have clear and effective answers”he insisted.
“Do we consider that the current state of the situation is satisfactory? I don’t think so.”government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said on Thursday on Sud radio.
She further specified that “similar agreements” to those passing through Italy with Albania were “under study at the Ministry of the Interior”.
This controversial bilateral agreement between Rome and Tirana allowed the arrival of the first migrants arrested in Italian waters in Albania on Wednesday. This is an outsourcing of the asylum application never before seen in Europe.
Reach such agreements with third countries, “takes a lot of time”she explained.
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