In an open letter addressed to the President of the Republic, around ten personalities call for the withdrawal of the immigration bill, denouncing the “bad wind” in France and Europe, the “growing poison of hatred and rejection of the other “.
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The general secretaries of the CFDT and the CGT, leaders of associations fighting precariousness or defending the rights of foreigners and academics asked Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, December 17, in an open letter obtained by franceinfo, the withdrawal of the immigration bill, “indelible stain on our republican principles”.
On the eve of the examination of the text by deputies and senators in the joint committee (CMP), the signatories request “solemnly to the President of the Republic not to give in to this spiral of escalation of proposals infringing on the fundamental rights of people”.
The text is signed by the general secretaries of the CFDT and the CGT, Marylise Léon and Sophie Binet, the leaders of Cimade, the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, the LDH, France Terre d’Asile, the Uniopss (social sector associations), as well as by François Héran, professor at the Collège de France, and Camille Schmoll (research director at EHESS). These personalities judge that the measures which serve as a basis for the CMP, resulting from the text voted by the Senate, “undermine many of our republican principles, in terms of unconditional access to care or housing, respect for dignity, refusal to endorse the logic of national preference”.
The signatories consider as many “compromises” or “bargaining” measures such as the conditioning of social benefits on five years of legal presence in France, the reestablishment of the offense of illegal residence, the abolition of State Medical Aid (AME), the tightening of access to residence permits or again the promise to increase expulsions.
