For Pascal Brice, former director of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons and guest of the European Morning 1, Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron is right to "face the issue of immigration".

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Two weeks before the parliamentary debate, immigration returns to the forefront: Monday night, Emmanuel Macron asked his majority to "look at this subject in front." On our antenna, Wednesday, Pascal Brice, former director of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra) from 2012 to 2018, also believes that "we must confront the issue of immigration."

"We are not in a situation of submersion or migratory wave," first tempers the former director of Ofpra, before stating that "in a society like ours, where you have social difficulties and questions identity, the question of immigration arises.The situation works the social body so it must be confronted, the question is how. "

Quotas? "Let's have clear criteria"

With a statement: "Our system works poorly to accommodate one in two asylum seekers on the streets, but also to protect," according to Pascal Brice. In recent days, the government has notably appeared divided on state medical aid, whose budget has doubled in ten years to about one billion euros for about 300,000 applicants.

" How is the response to business needs organized through the organization of legal economic migration? "

Other topics should be addressed during the parliamentary debate, including the annual immigration quotas: "It is important to ask the question of legal economic migration: there are needs in our companies, and it's not right to deal with demographics At the same time, we must take into account the legitimate concerns of employees How do we organize the response to business needs through the organization of legal economic migration? ", Pascal Brice analysis. According to him, "instead of being in fantasy, let's organize things and have clear criteria through public debate".

Brice proposes to "rewrite the criteria of the right to stay"

"For 30 or 40 years, we have restricted legal migration routes: if you are a migrant, the only door still open is asylum, you ask," says the former director of Ofpra. "In 40% of the cases, you find asylum cases and you are protected, in 60% of the cases, it is no." Do we ask the question of knowing, within limits to fix, how to have flyways? especially for economic migration. "

Pascal Brice goes further, proposing, "with a group of practitioners", to "rewrite the criteria of the right to stay, the right of asylum, legal economic migration, situations of humanitarian distress, according to clear criteria and transparent ":" When we are not in the criteria, we are effectively renewed, and not only in the speeches, we must confront this question and provide answers serenely. " With, already, the future to foresee: "It is necessary to anticipate the environmental climatic displacements, already at work."