the Senate deletes the article on the regularization of undocumented workers in “jobs in shortage”

This was the most controversial measure of the bill, with the right believing that this article opened the way to “massive” regularization.

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The Senate, in Paris, during the debate on the immigration bill, November 7, 2023. (QUENTIN DE GROEVE / HANS LUCAS / AFP)

The Senate voted, Wednesday, November 8, to remove the flagship measure of the government’s immigration bill, that providing a residence permit for certain undocumented workers in professions in shortage, considering that this article opened the way to a regularization “massive”.

The senatorial majority of the right and the center, however, agreed before this deletion (191 votes for, 138 against) on the drafting of another article providing for a residence permit “exceptional” and with tougher outlines for workers in sectors with labor shortages, which should be adopted unless there are any surprises a little later.

The day before, Republican senators and their centrist allies had announced that they had found a “agreement” providing for the deletion of section 3.


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