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In France, a college of eleven experts - trade unionists, academics, business leaders - submitted Tuesday, January 21, a report to the government and to the President of the Republic who advocates a simplification of the law of foreigners and the regularization of non-deportable persons.
There is an urgent need to put an end to the “ lawless situations ” which seize the integration of migrants, judges the former boss of the French agency in charge of refugees, Pascal Brice, co-author of the report.
Asylum applications increased by 7% in France, contrary to the overall European trend, as revealed by immigration statistics published on Tuesday. France is still far from being the first host country, but if we have this increase, it is because we have no migration policy. This is the result of a " complex and illegible " policy, believes the former director of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra), today a counselor at the Court of Auditors. " We end up with a multiplication of situations of lawlessness, with people who are neither regularized nor renewed ".
Patrick Weil is research director at CNRS and co-author of the report. For him, it is not a question of opening the doors massively to immigration, but simply of respecting the values of France.
What we are proposing is not an increase in migratory flows, it is to make the situation of those who are in a legal situation, secure, stable, free the administration from unnecessary tasks and make it do the work it hurts very much ...
Patrick Weil, research director at CNRS and co-author of the report 01/21/2020 - by Pierre Olivier Listen
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25 proposals for a “complete overhaul of the law "
In the 100-page report, 25 proposals for a “ complete overhaul of the law ” are presented. Among them, the creation of a post of High Commissioner for Asylum and Immigration attached to the Prime Minister and which would therefore no longer be the responsibility of the Interior.
Another proposal of the report: an asylum agency, which would take charge of the entire journey of applicants and replace various organizations they come across, including Ofpra.
An overhaul of the duration of residence permits
The report also proposes a simplification and a strengthening of the rights of legal emigrants. This would pass in particular for an overhaul of the duration of residence permits, as Patrick Weil explains.
“ Today, most legal emigrants in France have one-year cards. As they are given to them late, almost three months after receiving the one-year card, they have to leave for the distressing process of renewing the card. Obviously we cannot feel good and integrate, build our future or our projects if every six months we tell you that you risk not being renewed while they are renewed. "
Today there are an estimated 300,000 undocumented people in France. So many cases whose residence permits are regularly renewed, but which slow down administration.
Experts suggest that the basic card be a five-year card and that the ten-year card become a permanent card like an American Green Card, explains Patrick Weil. " We are proposing to create new titles, circulation titles, round-trip titles which allow either people with diplomas or seasonal workers to be sure they can move and return regularly between their country and France. "
According to figures released on Tuesday by the Interior Ministry, students are ahead of family immigration for the first time.
The lack of environmental and humanitarian protection, which does not currently exist as such, is also pointed out in the report. This protection must be the subject of an international convention, in particular to enable the question of environmental displaced persons to be answered.
As for labor migration , whose system is " made not to work ", it must be the subject of discussions with the social partners to identify " companies which have needs which are not satisfied ", affirms Pascal Brice
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(With AFP)