A new immigration law “does not seem a total priority to me”, says Gabriel Attal

The former Prime Minister was the guest of France Inter on Monday, the day after the government’s announcement of a “new law” on immigration, the examination of which could begin “at the beginning of 2025” in Parliament.

“Making a law for the sake of a law, without explaining to us what would be in it, does not seem to me to be a complete priority.“, affirmed, Monday October 14 on France Inter, the former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. The leader of the Macronist deputies believes that “Make a law for a law” on immigration, announced by the government for the beginning of 2025, “it doesn’t make sense“, he insisted.

On Sunday, the government announced a “new law“on immigration, the examination of which could begin”early 2025” in Parliament, just one year after the previous text on the subject which had fractured the majority in the National Assembly.

“There will be a need for a new law“, in particular to allow “the extension of the duration of detention in administrative detention centers“illegal foreigners deemed dangerous, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon announced on Sunday on BFMTV. This would be the 33rd text on immigration since 1980. One of the avenues envisaged is to increase the maximum duration of detention of 90 to 210 days, which is currently only possible in the case of terrorist offenses.

On France Inter, the former Prime Minister recalls that an immigration law has already been “adopted less than a year ago“.”Some of its measures are not in force, because the decrees have not yet been issued“, he adds. The EPR deputy for Hauts-de-Seine does not seem convinced, for the moment, of its usefulness and instead judges “priority to act“so that the State “can truly control who enters and who leaves“of its territory.”Making a law for the sake of a law makes no sense“, he insists. He considers that “what matters is less whether we make a law or not, but what we want to put in it“.

Gabriel Attal acknowledges sharing with the government “the objective” of “better control of our migration policy“, and said to himself “ready to have a debate, a discussion on measures“. But he believes that before “to say that we need a new law, we should perhaps explain to ourselves what would be in it“But the Macronist deputy for Hauts-de-Seine notes that, for the moment, “we are not told what would be in this law“.