Gérald Darmanin’s project lands in the Senate

Long in the drawers, but postponed many times, the project of immigration law arrives in the Senate from Monday November 6. Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, will bring forward a text with two components: a repressive component and at the same time an integration component. The point of tension is article 3, which creates a temporary residence permit for illegal foreigners working in professions in shortage. Article 3 is the Republicans’ red line. “It is an article which gives an automatic right to those who have arrived fraudulently on our territory”alarms Bruno Retailleau, president of the party group in the Senate.

A fundamental article for the left

According to information from France 2, Elisabeth Borne asked the Minister of the Interior to find a way through. The text is a catalyst for divisions within the majority itself. The left wing made it a casus belli. She threatens not to pass the law if article 3 disappears. Other measures will be fiercely debated as the government wants to tighten the conditions for the right to asylum.