Despite the rumors that preceded its formation, Michel Barnier’s government did not resurrect a Ministry of Immigration like the one that had been created under Nicolas Sarkozy between 2007 and 2010. But in Place Beauvau, on Tuesday, October 8, Bruno Retailleau He spoke about immigration, immigration and immigration to the twenty-one prefects he had invited, those from the departments that concentrate 80% of the expulsion measures. TO “work meeting” which preceded another, where all the prefects were able to listen to the Minister of the Interior develop his five priorities, the first and most detailed being immigration, followed by security, political Islam, the territorial State and civil security.
“He said that he wanted to respond to the will of the people and that what matters is the result of the first round of the legislative elections”reports one of the participants, under the pretext of anonymity, like all those who were kind enough to trust the World the content of these exchanges. On June 30, the National Rally won first place in the voting, before the Republican Front relegated it to third position in the second round on July 7.
While his predecessor in Place Beauvau, Gérald Darmanin, although he came from the republican ranks like him, proposed to be “Bad to the bad, kind to the good”Mr. Retailleau insisted to the prefects on his desire to reduce immigration, including legal immigration, in a context in which the issuance of residence permits in France follows a long-lasting upward trend, influenced by student immigration, but also professional and humanitarian.
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Aware that, in the absence of a parliamentary majority, his room for maneuver lies more in the regulatory than in the legislative aspect, the minister announced two future circulars. The first is similar to a directive directive for prefectures, by assigning objectives. “Ask the prefects to inform him and provide him with panels on the increase in expulsions and the fall in regularizations”explains a prefect.
Regarding expulsions, the minister called for the provisions introduced by the immigration law of January 2024 to be used, which lift a certain number of protections that limit the possibilities of expulsion for various categories of foreigners (such as those who arrived in France before the age of 13). ).
Regarding the regularizations, they will be the subject of the second circular announced by the minister, replacing the one currently in force. Known as the “Valls circular”, this 2012 text, applied unevenly throughout the territory, determines the criteria for regularization of undocumented foreigners and allows some 30,000 people to obtain a residence permit each year, due to their life. private and family in France. This is particularly the case for parents of children who have been in school for three years – or the paid work they do.
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