Emmanuel Macron announced this Thursday that an asylum bill would be presented “from the beginning of 2023” in the face of an “absurd policy” that is both “ineffective and inhumane”.
“A bill related to asylum, therefore to immigration to the Republic, will be presented from the beginning of 2023”, declared the Head of State before the prefects.
“Our policy today is absurd” because “it consists of putting the women and men who arrive, who are in the greatest misery” in the poorest neighborhoods, he stressed.
“We must reform our procedures”
This policy “is both ineffective and inhumane, ineffective because we find more foreigners in an irregular situation than many of our neighbors, inhumane because this pressure makes them too often unwelcome”, he pointed out.
“We must reform our procedures to be able to go much faster and that is essential. We must preserve the fundamental rights of all people but we must be able to go much faster, above all, to fight against all delaying practices, ”he said. he said she.
It is necessary to “differentiate the procedures”, “accelerate their instruction” and “integrate much faster and much better those who even have a provisional title by language and by job,” said the Head of State.
“A Clear Message”
He advocated a better distribution of foreigners welcomed in the territory, particularly in “rural areas, which are losing population.”
Emmanuel Macron also pledged to “improve the effectiveness of deportation policies” at the border for foreigners in an irregular situation.
He said he wanted to send “a clear message: we are in the process, we have begun to strengthen our policies very strongly by making the granting of visas more conditional on the spirit of cooperation to accept foreigners in an irregular situation, starting with those who disturb public order “.
A reference to countries that refuse to grant the necessary consular passes for the return of their nationals expelled from France.
Source: BFM TV
