Despite an initial disagreement, senators from Les Républicains (LR) and the centrist Union (UC) finally agreed to delete the highly controversial Article 3 of the immigration bill on the automatic regularization of illegal immigrants in sectors with labor shortages. A new "Article 4 bis", resulting from the internal negotiations of the Senate majority, provides for the tightening of the Valls circular of 2012, which currently regulates regularizations by labor by the hands of prefects. What does this announced turn of the screw really consist of?
At present, about 7000 undocumented migrants are regularized each year on the basis of the Valls circular. "With Darmanin's Article 3, there would have been tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands," said Jean-Éric Schoettl, former secretary general of the Constitutional Council. The text proposed by the Senate provides for these regularizations to continue "in dribs and drabs", according to Bruno Retailleau's expression, but by controlling...
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