Several hundred people demonstrated on Saturday February 18 in Paris, Lyon and Marseille against the bill on immigration and against the administrative detention centers (CRA), denouncing a ” disposable immigration and calling for the regularization of undocumented migrants.
In Paris, the demonstrators, 1,200 according to the organizers, 500 according to the police headquarters, met in front of the Immigration Museum, in the 12th arrondissement, to go to the Vincennes detention center, at the call of a collective against disposable immigration ” grouping in particular Solidaires, Rights in front, the League of Human Rights, the PCF or the New Anti-Capitalist Party. ” No to the Darmanin law, against repression and confinement and expulsions, for a migratory reception policy the head banner proclaimed.
The bill defended by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin provides for several measures to facilitate expulsions – especially of “delinquent” foreigners -, a reform of the right to asylum and an integration component, in particular the regularization of undocumented workers in sectors where employers are struggling to hire, such as restaurants.
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” Welcome rather than suppress »
” Regularizing only in so-called tension sectors is very problematic: it means regularizing where no one wants to go, because the conditions are unworthy “, estimated Cybèle David, member of the collective and Solidaires, questioned by AFP, for whom” it is a sorting of immigrants and a blackmail to the acceptance of a job “.
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In Lyon, more than a hundred participants, including a handful of “yellow vests”, marched towards the prefecture, under the flags of LFI or even Unef, noted an AFP journalist. ” Welcome rather than suppress “, proclaimed a sign, while the demonstrators chanted: “ What do we want? Papers ! For who ? For everyone ! “.
In Marseille, there were between 150 and 200 of them and they stopped for a long time in front of the CRA located in the 14th arrondissement (north) of the city and chanted “ papers for all or no papers at all “, Or ” stone by stone, wall by wall, we will destroy the detention centers “.
We are not criminals! We need, we have the right to freedom…
Report in Marseilles
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