French immigration bill causes uproar – DW – 12/10/2023
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France's President Macron wants to reform immigration law with stricter deportation measures. Migrants and refugees protesting against the reform say its severity is unprecedented.
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    “Most of us undocumented immigrants are using this method, but it means we are paying social insurance fees and taxes without benefitting from services such as regular public healthcare like French citizens,” he told DW.

    “President Emmanuel Macron’s government treats us as if we were nothing, although we’re doing all the dirty work ― at construction sites, including the ones for the Paris Olympics next summer, in restaurants and as cleaners,” he added.

    The draft law is set to be discussed in the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, starting on Monday, December 11, 2023, and could enter into force early next year.

    The new bill is likely to fast-track asylum procedures and shorten delays for appeals, make family reunifications more complicated and restrict the possibility to come to France for medical treatment.

    “The government had promised a balanced bill, and yet, the new rules will almost exclusively restrict immigrants’ rights and make it more complicated for them to get legalized, which will result in even more undocumented migrants,” she told DW.

    “France has voted through many immigration bills, but it feels like we are passing a new threshold of toughness with this one ― for example by making it easier to expel foreign parents of French children, which was beforehand only possible if they had committed serious crimes,” Faron added.

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