“Results” For “regain control of our immigration” : The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, sent a circular to the prefects to apply the new guidelines of this uncompromising supporter on immigration policy.
“Obtaining the results requested by our fellow citizens requires your total mobilization”the Minister writes to the representatives of the State in this seven-page document, which was made known to Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, October 29. In this circular, the new tenant of Beauvau Square details the procedure to follow, pending a new immigration law promised by the executive for 2025.
The content of the document was leaked when the minister himself was in Rabat to discuss cooperation on illegal immigration with his Moroccan counterpart. They accepted“deepen” TO “framework”, “whether in terms of return, the fight against networks or the surveillance of land and sea borders”explained Mr. Retailleau to the press. Both countries intend “shorten deadlines” regarding the “Readmissions of Moroccan nationals in an irregular situation” in France for “obtain better results in terms of the number of people readmitted”he clarified.
In France, these are ” results “ What does Bruno Retailleau expect from the prefects first? “The resumption of control of our immigration depends on your personal involvement”says in this particularly detailed document. “These guidelines are aimed at both foreigners in legal status […] those who are in an irregular situation, in particular with regard to continued administrative detention and the control measures and systems that must be established when the possibilities of recourse to the latter are exhausted.”writes the minister.
The manager lists a series of measures aimed, for example, at “amplify” AND “systematize” expulsion measures aimed at foreigners who may represent a threat to public order in France. These guidelines should not be “limit to the flow of new situations”but must “on cases that in the past could not be the subject of adequate measures, which are now possible” by the Darmanin law enacted in early 2024.
“Fully mobilize the lever of the prohibition of return in addition to the OQTF”
Eager to use all the provisions opened by the law of his predecessor, Bruno Retailleau wants, for example, the prefects to mobilize “take full advantage of the return ban in addition to the OQTF [obligation de quitter le territoire français] », “when an expulsion order does not have legal validity”. To carry out this policy, the minister asks the prefects to contribute “in human, material and budgetary resources” services to foreigners to absorb the additional workload. he also wants “comprehensive responses every month” on the immigration police activity of each prefecture.
The circular also highlights the situation of foreigners released from prison, a few weeks after the rape and murder of a Parisian Filipino student, whose main suspect is a Moroccan target of an OQTF who had just been released after a conviction in 2021 for rape.
Among the reminder of the already existing measures, Bruno Retailleau orders the prefects, in matters of confinement, to “systematic appeal” in case of release of a potentially dangerous illegal alien “for public order”.
After this circular “immigration policy management” In the coming weeks, a review of the Valls circular should be carried out to tighten certain regularization criteria provided for in this 2012 document. The Minister of the Interior announced its rewriting.
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Regarding the future law announced in mid-October by the government, Bruno Retailleau already announced that he wanted to resume the measures voted on in the Darmanin text in December 2023 and which were then censored by the Constitutional Council. This position immediately aroused the fractures that appeared last year in the presidential field during the debates over the Darmanin law.
