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"No hidden plan": the government tries to reassure the right on the immigration bill

2022-11-03T09:53:29.499Z


After the government unveiled the main lines of the future immigration bill on Wednesday, several ministers tried to


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Guests in the media mornings this Thursday morning, Olivier Véran, government spokesperson, Olivier Dussopt, Minister of Labor, and Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, gave details on the immigration bill, including the main lines were unveiled the day before.

With, as an ambition, to reassure the LRs, whose votes in the National Assembly will necessarily be necessary to pass the text.

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Sweeping the accusations from the right and the far right, Olivier Véran assured on BFMTV that there was "no hidden plan for naturalization or mass regularization".

An idea taken up by Olivier Dussopt, guest of France Info, who specified that this measure would only concern “a few thousand or a few tens of thousands of people”.

The issue of shortage occupations

The idea of ​​facilitating residence permits for “jobs in tension” – aimed at recruiting in sectors where there is a shortage of labor – was also mentioned by the members of the government invited this Thursday morning.

It is a question of “putting an end to hypocrisy” by regularizing foreigners in an irregular situation who are already working in France, notably affirmed the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt.

There are “about thirty professions, sectors” considered “in tension” with a regional variation, he detailed, specifying that the list was fixed by decree.

It will also be “revised for the beginning of 2023” after consultations “with the social partners” which will begin in November.

Among these trades, there are, in particular, those of catering or construction.

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The idea, behind the bill, is that "someone in an irregular situation in our country but who has a job, could initiate himself, tomorrow, the process of obtaining a residence permit and keeping his job. “Explained for his part the government spokesperson.

Such a measure “does not give rise to the right to family reunification”, specified Olivier Véran.

However, the question is “framed by international conventions”, nuanced Olivier Dussopt, guest of France Info.

The Minister of the Interior also wanted to highlight the “work value”, also advocated by Olivier Véran and Olivier Dussopt.

“There are people who work, who do not pose any problem of public order, (…) who pay contributions and who do not have their social protection.

(…) I am for France to welcome them, ”said Gérald Darmanin on CNews this Thursday morning.

According to the government spokesperson, there will first be a month of discussions "with the social partners" on the subject of immigration, then "a debate with all the political forces in the National Assembly and the Senate », then, at the beginning of next year, the presentation of a bill.

Source: leparis

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