"Revise our software": criticism on the balance sheet of the migration policy, Édouard Philippe set guidelines, Monday, October 7, not excluding the idea of quotas, during a debate in the National Assembly wanted by Emmanuel Macron who bristled left and left the right on his hunger.
Calling for "a policy without choking or naivety", the head of the government launched the debate in front of a hemicycle far from being overpowered, like an ordinary Monday. A similar debate will take place Wednesday in the Senate.
"I'm not afraid to think about quotas," says @ EPhilippePM # DirectAN #DebatImmigration pic.twitter.com/rcYnfTEdzD
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One year after the enactment of the asylum-immigration-integration law, the Prime Minister admitted that the government had "not achieved all its objectives" in the area of migration, noting the 22% increase between 2017 and 2018 number of asylum applications. "The French asylum system is now saturated," he lamented, saying that the idea of "quotas" was not "taboo".
But the quotas, "it is not operative", not the "magic recipe", criticized Boris Vallaud (PS), when Eric Ciotti (LR), favorable, asked the "calendar".
The Matignon tenant has developed "six orientations", including a reflection on the social benefits granted to asylum seekers. "France [...] should not be more or less attractive than its neighbors", pleaded Édouard Philippe, calling "to face the facts [...] without denying our principles", especially on the conditions of access to care.
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Edouard Philippe also wants to redefine the strategy of official development aid, which must reach 0.55% of GDP in 2022, putting "finally the migratory issue at the heart of our diplomatic relations with these states". He also intends to "do more and better in integration".
"In France, we do not let people perish because they miss the right stamp on the right document"
A few days after the controversial anti-immigrant speech of polemicist Eric Zemmour, the Prime Minister has shot some arrows against the providers of "false solutions", denouncing the "myths and fantasies" of "zero immigration", "immigration" replacement "or" the end of the right of the ground ".
Virulent critique of @ EPhilippePM against the theory of "alternative immigration", "a term of some ugliness that calls upon the most detestable springs of conspiracy" #DirectAN #debatimmigration pic.twitter.com/04y3I2f0d4
LCP (@LCP) October 7, 2019To respond to the "worries" of the French, Édouard Philippe said he was also "ready" to open a debate on "community excesses", indicating that it does not link the subject to that of migration policy.
Ministers Christophe Castaner (Interior) and Jean-Yves Le Drian (Foreign Affairs) then insisted on the need to act internationally to regulate migration flows and facilitate the return of people in an irregular situation.
We need "a global approach to act the most upstream with countries of origin and transit and avoid tragedies in the Mediterranean," said Jean-Yves Le Drian, referring to the strengthening of "partnerships".
Immigration is "first and foremost an international issue and Europe is at the heart of the challenges and solutions," agreed Christophe Castaner.
Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health, for her part strongly defended the health protection system of immigrants in force: "Yes, in France, we do not let people perish because they miss the right stamp on the good document". Regarding State Medical Aid (AME), however, it announced a "plan to fight against fraud".
@ Agnesbuzyn's plea for the AME: "In France, we do not let people perish because they miss the right stamp!"
The Minister of Health also denies the "false information" circulating on the subject. # DirectAN #DebatImmigration pic.twitter.com/J0PyIqRp5W
"You have chosen to make the immigrant the scapegoat of the country's problems"
Shortly before the start of the exchanges, the president of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, made the link between the killing of the prefecture of Paris, perpetrated by a French convert to Islam, Mickaël Harpon, and an "immigration" anarchic "letting develop" Islamist fundamentalism ". Marine Le Pen, who defends a "moratorium" on immigration, called in the hemicycle the executive to "have the courage to finally hold a big referendum" on immigration.
For several months, Emmanuel Macron insists on this theme of immigration, convinced that the presidential election of 2022 will be played on the sovereign subjects and he will find himself again facing Marine Le Pen.
In the majority, highlighting this theme, which had already divided during the voting of the Asylum and Immigration Act in 2018, caused some of the left wing to creak. Seventeen of its members called in a forum on Monday to "expand labor market access to migrants".
On the left, the preventions are alive: the number one PS Olivier Faure has alerted against the temptation of a "state populism".
"You have chosen to make the immigrant the scapegoat of the country's problems rather than the financier who plunders our country or the tax evader," lamented the leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"You have chosen, again, to make the figure of the immigrant that scapegoat of the country's problems," says @JLMelenchon. #DirectAN #debatimmigration pic.twitter.com/Wrgjl6pfL0
LCP (@LCP) October 7, 2019Alerts also come from migrant aid associations, which point to "erroneous assumptions" or the Protestant Federation of France, which is worried about the "deleterious consequences of the electoral manipulation of immigration issues".
On the right, Guillaume Larrivé (LR) wanted the establishment of an "immigration charter" backed by the Constitution and submitted to "referendum".
In conclusion, Édouard Philippe noted a "dissensus", such as "it is difficult to have a nuanced exchange" on immigration. If there is no question of a new law, he nevertheless confirmed that the executive intended "to use the texts to come" to "translate, measure by measure, these decisions into action".
With AFP