“We will not be able to vote on a text” if certain “red lines” are crossed, warns MP Cécile Rilhac

From Monday, the examination of the immigration bill begins in the Law Committee of the National Assembly. There is still no consensus on the regularization of undocumented workers and state medical aid.

“We will not be able to vote on a text” if some “red lines” are crossed, warned Monday November 27 on franceinfo Cécile Rilhac, deputy in Commun, related Renaissance of Val-d’Oise, member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education, while the immigration bill returns this Monday in commission to the National Assembly after passing through the Senate.

Article 3, which provided for the regularization of undocumented workers in professions in shortage, was replaced and tightened in the Senate. “He is one of our red lines”she indicated. “There must be the possibility of regularization of foreign workers. That is a certainty. Whether it is related to professions in shortage, it always raises the question, in this case, of the regular rewriting of this list of professions in tension”she emphasized.

“We will be very attentive to the proposal of our colleague Florent Boudié, precisely so that the discretionary right given to prefects is not the only right. We want there to be a basic right, that is to say that undocumented workers can, at their request, be regularized”she explained.

State medical aid: a “question of public health”

Other “Red line” for the MP, state medical aid abolished by the Senate: “It is at the same time a condition of integration worthy of foreigners, but above all it is also a question of public health”she argued.

The Senate has also tightened access, particularly to APLs, for foreigners. You will have to wait five years to touch them: “From the moment a person participates in the collective wealth of our country, family allowances and other allowances are a right. People who work in France contribute and as such benefit from certain rights. We do not see why there is would have differentiated rights for workers”she protested.

But Cécile Rilhac does not close the door to a vote if we do not touch social assistance and AME: “Everything that is on the land law, everything that is on the AME, clearly, it is a red line. That is to say that in these cases, we will not be able to vote on the text . We will go for some of us, until the vote against”, she said. But “abstention” is possible or even “a vote for”if “we arrive at a balance” on Article 3, she summarized.