Some fifteen associations denounced on Monday the government bill on migration, “continuous deterioration of the rights of migrants”, on the eve of its presentation to the National Assembly during a debate without a vote.
The text, where the great lines are not continued, will be the 29e sur l’asile et l’immigration depuis 1980. “Un énième projet de loi (…) qui va toujours dans le même sens, (…) une restriction des conditions d’accueil et une détérioration continua des droits des personnes migrantes”, to pointé Fanélie Carrey-Conte, secretary general of the Cimade, lors d’une conference de presse réunissant une quinzaine d’associations au siège d’Amnesty International France in Paris.
This bill “cuts a little further the right to asylum, the right to a normal family life, the rights of the child and the right to a fair trial”, according to the president of Amnesty International France, Jean-Claude Samouiller.
In question, in particular, the government’s willingness to impose an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) as soon as the asylum application is rejected, without waiting for a possible appeal. A measure that generates “risks of illegal return”, before all resources are exhausted, according to Jean-Claude Samouiller.
The use of a single judge divides
Another cause for concern: the extension of the use of a single judge to the National Court of the Right to Asylum (CNDA), which governs for the most part collegiately, combined with a territorialization, in the network of administrative courts, of this body currently based in the Paris region and divided into geographically specialized chambers.
“The judge is going to have to be aware of all the persecutions that exist in the world, we went from a specialist situation to a generalist situation, and it is (the judge) only the one who is going to make his decision in front of the people who their lives are at stake,” stressed Jean-Claude Samouiller.
The creation of a “jobs in tension” residence permit, however, one of the axes welcomed with the most enthusiasm by the associations during the consultations with the Executive in November, also arouses some mistrust. Because this residence permit, for a renewable period of one year, would confine foreign workers to sectors under pressure, despite the fact that “many undocumented immigrants are graduates, overqualified,” lamented Bchira Ben Nia, spokesperson for the Collective of Undocumented Immigrants 75 .
These same associations will meet in front of the National Assembly, on Tuesday from 1 to 3 p.m., to receive the deputies for the debate that will later take place in the Chamber.
Source: BFM TV
