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French immigration bill causes uproar
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https://www.dw.com/en/french-immigration-bill-causes-uproar/a-67673671
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“Most of us undocumented immigrants are using this method, but it means we are paying social insurance fees and taxes without benefiting from services such as regular public health care like French citizens,” he told DW.
The new bill is likely to fast-track asylum procedures and shorten delays for appeals, make family reunification more complicated and restrict the possibility to come to France for medical treatment.
Interior Minister Darmanin brought the immigration reform bill into the Senate, but France’s upper house of parliament, which has a center-right majority, recently toughened the draft considerably.
“The government had promised a balanced bill, and yet, the new rules will almost exclusively restrict immigrants’ rights and make it more complicated for them to get legalized, which will result in even more undocumented migrants,” she told DW.
“France has voted through many immigration bills, but it feels like we are passing a new threshold of toughness with this one ― for example by making it easier to expel foreign parents of French children, which was beforehand only possible if they had committed serious crimes,” she added.
Alain Fontaine, owner of the restaurant Le Mesturet in central Paris and head of French Association of Master Restaurateurs, is still hoping the initially planned one-year green card will be put back in and even extended.
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