It looks like a distribution of yellow cards. The parliamentary committee of inquiry on migration is due to make its report public on Tuesday, November 16, and on reading its thirty recommendations, it is a good part of the policy pursued by the government and the legacy of precedents that seem to be reviewed. .
The committee was led by its chairman, the deputy for Haute-Garonne and ex-La République en Marche (LRM) Sébastien Nadot, as well as its rapporteur, the deputy for Manche Sonia Krimi, from the left wing of LRM. Their hearings and field missions spanned a little less than eight months and broadly swept the migration issue. The resulting statement, condensed over a hundred pages, sometimes only skims the surface of the subjects or is limited to drawing up already worn-out observations. But it emerges from it a predominantly critical content.
Restrict the granting of visas to force the countries of origin to take back their nationals? To avoid. The policy of dismantling camps in Calais? Deleterious. The management of immigration by the Ministry of the Interior alone? To reform. The increase in registration fees for foreign students? To delete…
While the candidates for the presidential election continue, on the right, to compete rigorously on immigration, even if it means freeing themselves from the law, the rapporteur recalls that the phenomenon of migration, “Constant, global but limited”, cannot be dried up by any “Firmness” and denounces “The irrational fear carried by the public debate” as well as a treatment “Become more and more secure”. A few months before the presidential election, however, his recommendations have little hope of being taken up by the executive.
“Create legal channels for migration”
Contrary to calls to toughen migration policies, the investigation report promotes the creation of legal migration channels for “Streamline travel and reduce the power of the smugglers’ mafias”. He regrets the use of the visa issuance policy for coercive purposes. At the end of September, the public authorities announced that they had drastically reduced the number of visas granted to the Maghreb countries in order to force them to issue more consular passes, an essential document to expel their illegal nationals without travel documents. The commission recommends “Do not penalize populations” and considers that if the removal measures are “Largely under-executed, the issue of consular passes is largely overestimated”.
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