Lhe government announced on Sunday a new law on immigration, the examination of which could begin “early 2025” in Parliament, just one year after the previous text on the subject which had fractured the majority in the National Assembly.
“There will be a need for a new law”, in particular to allow “the extension of the period of detention in administrative detention centers” of illegal foreigners deemed dangerous, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon announced on Sunday on BFMTV. .
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One of the options envisaged is to increase the maximum period of detention from 90 to 210 days, which is currently only possible in relation to terrorist offences.
“We are not stopping ourselves from thinking about other arrangements,” added the spokesperson, judging that there should be “no taboo in terms of protecting the French”.
The executive wants this text to reach Parliament “early 2025”.
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Tense debates
The previous law, promulgated on January 26, was the subject of very tense debates in Parliament as well as within the former presidential majority. The Macronist camp was able to get the text voted on thanks to the abstention of National Rally deputies.
Migration “quotas” set by Parliament, reinstatement of the offense of illegal stay, the deposit required from foreign students in France to plan their return, measures restricting family reunification or restricting land rights: the Constitutional Council had censored large sections text.
The Sages had thus rebutted the main additions that the former presidential majority had conceded to the right and in particular to the current Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, then head of the LR senators and great architect of the hardening of the text.
In total, 32 of the 35 rejected provisions were considered “legislative riders”, without sufficient connection with the initial bill.
A formal reason which does not prejudge their substantive conformity with the Constitution. Nothing therefore excludes them from being proposed in the new text. Nor that they are, this time, rejected on their merits.
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