Thibault Nadal with AFP 12:30 p.m., March 21, 2022
How to regulate immigration flows, even more with the subject of the Ukrainian question?
The right-wing candidates are proposing numerous reforms and want to return to more national sovereignty, particularly on the question of borders.
While on the left, we assure that "immigration is not a problem".
This is a generally divisive question for presidential candidates.
What to do with immigration?
Between those who offer to welcome all refugees, whatever their nationality or those who make it one of the main themes of their campaign, the choice is vast and the proposals multiple.
On the occasion of the release of our presidential Playlists (the one on nuclear power can be found by clicking here or at the bottom of this article), Europe 1 returns to the proposals of certain candidates.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan says he will renegotiate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights on immigration.
Currently, the ECHR prohibits the collective expulsion of illegal immigrants and obliges the release of foreigners in an illegal situation with regard to their conditions of detention.
Its program includes the abolition of jus soli and obtaining nationality through a "demanding" naturalization process, including a sufficient command of French.
Anne Hidalgo
Socialist Anne Hidalgo promises to "guarantee a dignified welcome in all circumstances for asylum seekers".
To achieve this, it intends to put in place "a balanced distribution throughout the territory and processing times for their applications controlled at each stage", while committing to fight against "irregular and deadly channels of illegal immigration" .
Still on the left, Christiane Taubira advocates the "creation of a European asylum agency".
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Yannick Jadot
For the ecologist Yannick Jadot, "immigration is not a problem".
So for that, he intends to get out of the security logic on which the current immigration policies in France are based.
Once elected, Yannick Jadot would establish "a great Ministry of Solidarity" and will ask the police and the justice system to be less repressive against immigrants.
Yannick Jadot also wants to put an end to bone tests and intends to regularize undocumented migrants who have a job and want to create "humanitarian residence permits".
Marine Le Pen
For her third presidential election, Marine Le Pen also wishes to consult the French by referendum on the question of immigration.
The candidate of the National Rally also wishes to submit to voters a bill, constitutional and legislative, which would revise all the law applicable to foreigners.
It also wants to include in the Constitution principles, such as national priority in terms of housing and employment or that of the primacy of national law over European and international law, the constitutionality of which will have to be studied if necessary.
This bill provides for an arsenal of measures such as the prohibition of regularization of undocumented migrants, the expulsion of delinquent foreigners or even criminal sanctions for any complicity in illegal immigration.
Emmanuel Macron
The President, who recently unveiled his program, wants the establishment of faster and more effective removal procedures, and in particular with a system which will make the refusal of asylum worth the obligation to leave French territory.
Emmanuel Macron also wants to toughen the visa policy if the States do not cooperate "with a return policy".
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Jean-Luc Melenchon
If he wins the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon will proceed to the regularization of "working undocumented workers".
He believes that "equal status is a weapon against clandestine work and competition between employees, as practiced by employers".
Valerie Pécresse
On the side of the Republicans, it is considered "that uncontrolled immigration and failed integration can dislocate a nation".
Valérie Pécresse's flagship measure is "asylum at the border", which would require that asylum requests must pass through a French embassy.
She thus wishes to "take back control of the borders".
Eric Zemmour
The Reconquest candidate has announced it: he wants to achieve "zero immigration", by building a wall on the "external borders" of the EU.
And he intends to finance this wall with European funding.
"Countries that have built a wall like Hungary are defending European civilization," he told BFMTV.
On RTL, this time, he explained that he wanted to reduce legal immigration flows "to zero".
Thus, the far-right candidate wants to "stop the right to family reunification, reduce the right to asylum to a few dozen or even hundreds of people, drastically reduce the number of foreign students".
Éric Zemmour also wishes to plead for the suspension of the Schengen area and thus strengthen national sovereignty at the border level.
But the leader of Reconquest does not want to act without the approval of the French.
If he is elected, he has announced it: he will call a referendum before the summer.
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