Immigration law: Dialogue of the deaf between the executive and the opposition – Le Figaro

The National Assembly examines until July 23 this controversial bill … but with only 20 deputies present at the meeting.

Under 20 members – 13 from the left, four right – were present on Monday afternoon in the Chamber of the Assembly at the opening of the debate on immigration law. A record absenteeism related to the inclusion on the agenda of this sensitive text in the last week of the special session of Parliament, an 20 July. The interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, ignored his written speech and spoke without notes as often for more than half an hour on a decidedly political tone. In a long preamble, the minister accused the opposition of wanting to “take the immigration issue hostage to arouse fears” or “hatred.” The minister also swept the associations reviews the increased powers granted to prefects to “fight against fraud” to documents.

Bernard Cazeneuve said on France Inter that the multiannual residence permit for two to four years, created by the text, “must be accompanied by precautions.” In meeting, the Minister continued, “The strength, it is not closed, firmness, not verbal excess, it is a coherent public policy (…), the demonstration by the proof. After outlining the objectives of the text, which aims to “better accommodate” foreigners “who are meant to be,” “to welcome the talents” (intellectuals, researchers, scientists …) who will benefit from a ‘passport talent “of four years, and to fight against illegal immigration” without worldliness, “Bernard Cazeneuve has resolutely attacked the Republican right (in the absence of centrists and elected National Front). “Our country is in an extremely tense situation,” said Minister of the Interior, avoid “amalgams, approximations, words that hurt.”

The rapporteur Erwann Binet (PS ) himself has insisted on the necessary balance between the granting of “more rights to being integrated into foreigners” by avoiding the long queues in the prefectures “in a humiliating situation,” and supervision of detention for foreigners who are subject to an “obligation to leave French territory” (OQTF). The Isère MP propose, with the consent of the Minister, at the request of the Socialist Group, the automatic intervention of the judge of freedoms after 48 hours of retention (instead of five days), as was the case before 2011 to decide the fate of illegal aliens detained by police.

Defending the preliminary rejection motion, which was rejected, William Larrivé invited to “come out of the migratory chaos” adopting “a new immigration reduction policy. ” Republicans for the member of the Yonne, in a country where “national sentiment became very uncertain”, “what is irresponsible is to believe that immigration must increase.” Guillaume Larrivé denounced in session a text which is, he said, “a misunderstanding” that will “further increase immigration to France” and “complicate the return of illegal migrants to their countries of origin.” This near Brice Hortefeux called a “duty of soil” of foreigners born in France, who must “make clear their willingness to be French” and “respect the laws of the Republic”.

a motion to refer to committee, also rejected, Thierry Mariani (LR) stressed that “France must face immigration is out of control” because “the Schengen borders have become like sieves.” LR for the member of the French from abroad, “the priority of our country is to regain control of migration flows”. Mariani denounced the surge in applicants for state medical assistance (AME) in two years, the cost of about one billion euros in 2015, and deplored that “the arrest becomes the rule and retention Administrative the exception. “

The first-reading vote on the text could take place in the night of Wednesday to Thursday in the Assembly.