The number 1 of the CFDT and the CGT, leaders of associations fighting against precariousness or defending the rights of foreigners and academics ask Emmanuel Macron on Sunday for the withdrawal of the immigration bill, “an indelible stain on our principles Republicans.” On the eve of the examination of the text by deputies and senators in the joint joint committee (CMP), the signatories “solemnly ask the President of the Republic not to give in to this spiral of escalation of proposals infringing on the fundamental rights of individuals “.
The “bad wind” in France and Europe
The general secretaries of the CFDT and the CGT, Marylise Léon and Sophie Binet, the leaders of Cimade, the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, the LDH, France Terre d’Asile, the Uniopss (social sector associations ), as well as François Héran, professor at the Collège de France, and Camille Schmoll (research director at EHESS) judge that the measures which serve as a basis for the CMP, resulting from the text voted by the Senate, “harm many of our republican principles, in terms of unconditional access to care or housing, respect for dignity, refusal to endorse the logic of national preference.
The signatories consider as so many “compromises” or “bargaining” measures such as the conditioning of social benefits on 5 years of legal presence in France, the reinstatement of the offense of illegal residence, the abolition of State medical aid ( AME), the tightening of access to residence permits or even the promise to increase expulsions. Denouncing the “bad wind” in France and Europe, the “growing poison of hatred and rejection of others”, the signatories judge that “the only viable outcome today is to withdraw this bill, which has demonstrated that it could not be adopted by a parliamentary majority on a basis respectful of our republican values”.
“We are at a serious moment for foreign people and for our country. Until the end, we must be able to challenge. What is at stake here are fundamental things for our republican principles”, summarized Fanélie to AFP Carrey-Conte, general secretary of Cimade.