LE FIGARO.
- The government wants to create a “short-term occupations” residence permit.
Does France need labor immigration?
Jean-Thomas LESUEUR.
- This proposal alone symbolizes the impotence and the technocratic facilities that make up all the policy of this executive.
It should be remembered that, according to INSEE, immigrants represent 17.3% of the unemployed, whereas they represent 10.6% of the active population and that in 2019 the unemployment rate for foreigners (15.7%) was twice higher than that of people of French nationality (7.8%).
These elements are enough to condemn the creation of a “short-term occupations” residence permit.
But three other arguments also plead against.
The first is that this amounts to a de facto regularization of illegal workers and a renunciation of the fight against illegal immigration.
The second consists of the refutation, now solid and documented, of the thesis of the supposedly essential contribution of immigrants to…
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