“What this country needs is an organized and controlled reception where people can peacefully work where there are needs in businesses,” said Pascal Brice on franceinfo, Thursday November 9, while the immigration law is currently being considered in Parliament.
Pascal Brice, president of the Federation of Solidarity Actors (Fnars), called, Thursday, November 9 on franceinfo, Emmanuel Macron to intervene “to clarify things” while the immigration law is currently being examined in Parliament. Article 3, which aimed to regularize undocumented workers in professions in shortage, was deleted by the Senate for management “case by case” by the prefects.
Pascal Brice denounces “a decline” And “an outburst of denial of reality”. He estimates that “the attitude of the government” in the Senate “has been extremely worryingly ambiguous”. According to him, it is time for Emmanuel Macron, the government and parliamentarians “put an end to this drift which puts us at odds with Republican demands”.
franceinfo: Is a case-by-case system a step forward?
Pascal Brice: It would even be a step backwards compared to the already very difficult difficulties for the people who are there, who just want to work. We are witnessing a sort of outburst in the Senate. The Senate is known for bringing wisdom to our political life. We are far from it. We really have an unleashing of denial of reality. From the point of view of foreign people in precarious circumstances, the needs of businesses, public health, the climate in this country, we are witnessing something which is extraordinarily worrying. It’s time for everyone to pull together.
What do you mean by “get your act together”?
The Senate not only rejects the government’s proposal which aims to open up regularizations a little more, but goes back in relation to the current possibilities for regularization. They say: “These people only come to get treatment and receive benefits.” So, we fuel this stigma and at the same time, we prevent them from working. We ask for consistency, for composure so that we come back to simple things. What this country needs is an organized and controlled reception where people can peacefully work where there are needs in companies.
You don’t believe in a draft?
It’s a loss of composure. Nobody says that the question of immigration is easy to address in the state of the country with the tensions of all kinds that reign there. We must welcome, especially the persecuted, we must welcome businesses. You have to limit, organize. You have to master it because there are questions about cultural integration, social questions. But this is something else. These are sad passions. It’s about exposing strangers to stigmatization. The government proposed in an already extraordinarily limited way to do this in sectors in tension, precisely so as not to weigh on wages, simply so that foreign men and women who are there can simply work without disturbing anyone. .
There is no call for air in this matter. It is an outburst that distances us from the wisdom that we need, on many questions, particularly on immigration. It is time for the President of the Republic, the government, the National Assembly, the deputies to put an end to this drift which puts us at odds with Republican demands. This is the call of our federation.
Do you want Emmanuel Macron to intervene directly?
The government’s attitude in the Senate was extremely worryingly ambiguous. The President of the Republic must clarify things. The issue of immigration is not easy to address in the state of the country. We must welcome, we must limit. Well let the President of the Republic clarify things. In a Republic, we do not hand over foreigners to stigmatization, we organize reception, we control it for work, for care, for welcoming the persecuted.