In a moment of“utopia”he affirmed during his general policy declaration, he imagined making it a subject of“national intelligence”. Failing that, Michel Barnier has made immigration one of his five priority projects, revealed Tuesday 1er October in front of the deputies, at the National Assembly.
The subject is unsurprisingly at the heart of the government project. But, marking a distance from his Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who has been making very right-wing declarations since taking office on September 21, the Prime Minister expressed his wish to “respect for the rule of law”. At Sunday newspapertwo days earlier, Mr. Retailleau had on the contrary estimated that “the rule of law is neither intangible nor sacred”.
Mr. Barnier took a more classic posture, saving on announcements, contrasting at the same time with the hard positions defended when he was a candidate in the right-wing primary, in 2021. While Mr. Retailleau expressed his wish to legislate , in particular to reestablish the offense of illegal residence, to regularize less or even to attack state medical aid, the head of government castigated the “useless controversies” and defended his “pragmatism”.
Implementation of the “immigration” law
He nevertheless outlined a measure in direct response to the assassination of a student found in the Bois de Boulogne on September 21 and whose main suspect is a Moroccan already convicted of rape, subject to an obligation to leave the territory. “We will propose to facilitate the exceptional extension of the detention of foreigners in an irregular situation”declared Mr. Barnier. The suspect in the murder had been released from a detention center by a judge of freedoms and detention, three weeks before the homicide, in the absence of a consular pass being issued by Morocco.
As the head of government's remarks remain vague, it could be a matter of lowering the criteria for extending detention; or to increase this maximum duration to one hundred and twenty days, against ninety days today. “It will block places for longer and we will place fewer people in administrative detention centers, it’s mathematical. It’s a posture more than a lever”doubts a national police officer, who refuses to give his name.
“It will have no impact on evictions”adds Fanélie Carrey-Conte, general secretary of Cimade. Whatever happens, the government cannot ignore a law on this matter.
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Source: Lemonde
