“At least 110,000 people, including 30,000 children, deprived of their social rights” in the event of application of the law, according to a collective

At least 110,000 people, including 30,000 children, “would be deprived of their social rights” because of the immigration law, warns the collective “Our public services” on Friday January 19 in a note consulted by franceinfo. In this 17-page text, the collective of public agents denounces the fact that the immigration law, and more precisely its article 19, would establish a “national preference” on “family benefits and housing allowances which de facto target the most precarious people and children”.

The text considers that the fact of “condition almost all family benefits and housing allowances – with regard to foreigners only – to a period of presence in the territory of at least five years or a minimum duration of professional activity” risks worsening poverty and the living conditions of the most precarious.

According to the collective, “the immigration law comes into conflict” the principles of “liberty, equality, fraternity” which makes up the Republic in “imposing differences in treatment without difference in situation”. “The number of people who would be deprived of their social rights, with equal contributions, and on the sole reason of their place of birth or the nationality of their parents, is estimated at at least 110,000, including 30,000 children”underlines the text.

“Many of these families will fall into poverty.”

Collective Our public services

in a note consulted by franceinfo

This note comes from the collective “Our public services” which brings together around 600 civil servants and civil service contract workers who say they are “committed to rediscovering the meaning that underpins public service and its daily missions”. The immigration bill was definitively adopted by Parliament on December 19 after long debates. On January 14, thousands of people demonstrated in France to demand the “total withdrawal” of this law. Other gatherings are planned for Sunday January 21 before the decision of the Constitutional Council on January 25.