The senators “muscled” Wednesday in committee the immigration bill, by adopting a series of amendments, such as the tightening of the conditions of access to family reunification, thus giving a turn of the screw to the text, next hot file of the government.
The bill, which provides both measures to facilitate the expulsion of foreign offenders and an integration component, in particular through a controversial residence permit in jobs in tension, will be examined from March 28 in the Senate, dominated by the opposition. of right. The vote is scheduled for April 4, before a move to the National Assembly around the summer.
The law commission deplored the lack of ambition of the government text and its many blind spots. She undertook to beef up the few provisions going in the right direction, to remove those relating to a pure logic of display and, above all, to fill the gaps in the bill, summarized in a press release to the Senate committee.
We tried to erase a certain number of factors of attractiveness and to ask for more capacity of integration, indicated Muriel Jourda (LR), one of the two rapporteurs.
The latter have tightened the eligibility criteria for family reunification: level of language, length of stay, conditions of resources… So many points on which the Minister of the Interior Grald Darmanin had already said he was in favor before the senators at the end of February.
The senators have also tightened the conditions for benefiting from a sick foreign residence permit.
The text adopted in committee also provides for allowing Parliament to set immigration targets – or quotas – each year.
The senators again gave the green light to an amendment to transform state medical aid (AME), reserved for undocumented migrants, into emergency medical aid exclusively.
The boss of the LR senators Bruno Retailleau had indicated on Sunday that his group would not vote for a text where there would be calls for air, mentioning article 3, which plans to create a residence permit for jobs in tension and article 4 , allowing some asylum seekers to work without delay.
There are on these two articles two points of view which are discussed between the two rapporteurs, declared to AFP the president of the commission of the Laws Franois-Nol Buffet (LR). We wanted the debate to take place in session, he added.
The Law Commission has just considerably toughened up the bill. Everything goes: the AME, hardening of access to nationality, (…) aggravated expulsions including protected persons, deplored on Twitter the collective United against disposable immigration, which brings together associations hostile to the text.
The regressive festival begins, has for his part how Pierre Henry, president of France fraternities, who had participated in the consultations on the text. The cost of rallying LR to the retirement law?
Amendments from certain LRs who flirt with the ideology of the RN … promised for the debate in the session, also tweeted the president of the majority communist CRCE group, Eliane Assassi.