In France, the government announced on Sunday a new immigration law, whose examination could start in early 2025 in Parliament, only a year after the previous text on the subject which had fractured the majority in the National Assembly.
After the government’s announcement of a new immigration law, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau assured that he did not want to present a text identical to the immigration law passed last year and then partially censored. As such, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said that nine of the thirteen implementing decrees “have already been taken”.
During the examination of the last immigration law, deputies and ministers of the left wing of Macronie had already expressed their reluctance.
At the beginning of 2025, it will be rebelote, but in a completely different context. The Party Les Républicains which had greatly contributed to harden the previous text now holds Matignon and Beauvau, while the RN leaves threats of censorship.
Bruno Retailleau repeated Tuesday that he wanted to take over the most severe measures which had finally been censored by the Constitutional Council.
Among these, the decrease in the social rights of migrants, with the extension of the duration of residence necessary for foreigners to benefit from family benefits or the transformation of state medical aid, which takes care of certain medical care, in aid “emergency”.
Measures assimilated by the left to the “national preference”, long defended by the national rally.
The Minister of the Interior intends to extend the maximum period of administrative retention center for “dangerous” foreigners by 90 to 210 days, which is only possible for terrorist offenses for the moment.
He finally wants to harden the conditions of family reunification. Among the censored measures of the previous text, there was the extension of 18 to 24 months of the duration of residence required to claim this grouping.
