The government wants to register immigrants threatened with expulsion in the file of wanted persons, indicated the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in an interview published Tuesday, November 2 in the newspaper The world, in which he details the main measures of his future law on immigration.
The new immigration bill, scheduled for the first half of 2023, should introduce a series of measures to make the “obligations to leave French territory(OQTF) more effective. A subject that has occupied public debate since the murder of a 12-year-old girl, Lola, killed in mid-October by an Algerian national under the influence of an OQTF. ” We are now going to register all OQTFs in the wanted persons file. It is not a question of reestablishing the offense of illegal residence, but of being able to note that the person leaves (…) and thus to count all the departures of foreigners “, explained to the daily the Minister of the Interior, whose government is criticized, in particular on the far right, for the low rate of execution of these measures.
” Be mean to the mean and nice to the good »
France pronounced 122,000 OQTFs in 2021, but only executes a small part of them. ” First, there are nearly 50% of OQTFs that are subject to appeals that suspend them “, defended the minister, specifying that” to calculate the execution rate, we only count assisted departures and forced departures, i.e. nearly 17,000 removals in 2021. However, thousands of people leave the territory after having received an OQTF, without anyone knowing it . »
The Minister of the Interior reaffirms his desire to greatly simplify the procedures ” by the way ” from twelve to four categories of recourse possible. The Minister of the Interior also wants to put an end to the ” public order reservations ” who ” prevent the removal of people who arrived before the age of 13 ” in France. “ If I had to summarize, I would say that we must now be mean to the mean and nice to the good. “, he continued.
Facilitate the professional integration of immigrant workers
Within the framework of the bill, which must be preceded by a parliamentary debate, the government will seek this ” balance by facilitating the professional integration of immigrant workers, indicated the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, in the same interview. ” And there is progress to be made since in the first half of the year, when the unemployment rate was at 7.5%, that of immigrant workers was at 13%. Work must once again become a factor of integration and emancipation “, did he declare.
Olivier Dussopt, for example, wants to put an end – subject to conditions – to the waiting period which prevents asylum seekers from working during their first six months in France. The Minister of Labor also pleads for the creation of a residence permit ” job in tension “, to recruit in sectors that are struggling to find labor, but also the desire to ” simplify access to territories for specific skills, which the economy needs “. ” Professional organizations tell us that they need to facilitate the recruitment of foreigners. We offer them solutions with this bill “, he added.
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(With AFP)