"Fake humanity" What are the details of the new French immigration law? Does it perpetuate hate?

On Sunday, the streets of Paris witnessed protests by thousands of immigrants, denouncing the poor working conditions and the new immigration law that the French Ministry of Interior intends to pass. This law aims to facilitate deportations, which observers see as a consolidation of hostility towards this group of society.

Coinciding with their international day, which falls on December 18 of each year, thousands of immigrants took to the streets in demonstrations in the center of the French capital, Paris, where they raised slogans such as "We are not dangerous, immigrants are in danger," and they also denounced their social conditions and their widespread exploitation in the labor market . illegal.

The protesters called for more solidarity with irregular immigrants, expressing their opposition to the new immigration law that the French Ministry of Interior wants to approve, which, according to what its provisions revealed, opens the door to the mass deportation of these immigrants, which observers considered a dedication to hostile policies to this group of society.

Parliamentary discussions began regarding this draft law, which the left-wing opposition seeks to block its passage. While Interior Minister Gerald Darmanan sees his approval as a first step in his candidacy for the 2027 presidential elections.

New immigration law in France

According to its first draft , the new French immigration law aims to clamp down on irregular immigration to the country's territory, by increasing penalties for anyone who regularly facilitates the smuggling or settlement of irregular migrants, by raising their penalty to 20 years in prison.

The French Ministry of the Interior also vows to carry out forcible deportations "for anyone proven to be involved in disturbing public order," and to provide the legal basis for denying them the renewal of residency or its final withdrawal.

And according to it, it will expand these deportations, by reducing the number of litigation rules for obtaining residency to include only four cases, instead of the 12 currently in force. This amendment will deprive a wide range of irregular immigrants who resort to court to settle their status, and in 2019 these cases represented about 40% of the files filed with the French Administrative Court.

This law allows the French Ministry of the Interior and its security and judicial agencies to conduct a comprehensive inventory of irregular immigrants who are sentenced to leave the country, and to register them as people “for whom justice is sought”, as a measure that facilitates their deportation later, if the court does not respond to their appeal requesting regularization.

In this regard, while speaking to Le Monde newspaper, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said: "We will now register all those who have reached the verdicts to leave the soil in the file of wanted persons , it is not a matter of reviving the crime of illegal residence, but to be able to monitor Departure of the person , thus counting all foreign departures".

hate law?

The French far-right criticized the Ministry of the Interior for the killing of the child, Lola , at the hands of alleged irregular immigrants last October. The right accused the ministry of failing to deal with irregular immigrants, and they launched a wave of widespread hatred against that group of society.

Darmanan justified, in his statements to the French newspaper, the procedure for registering irregular immigrants sentenced to leave the soil as people “for whom justice is sought,” blaming them for the spread of crime in the country.

Darmanan said: “It should be understood that the majority of those in an irregular situation regularly come to our lands, and stay after the expiration of their visa or residence permit. This is the case of the supposed murderer of little Lola, who came on a student visa and remained irregular on our land for three years. ". "It would be absurd not to see that a small part of foreigners is responsible for a large part of the crime," he added.

“A clear racist content of the policy that Macron’s government wants to endorse,” this is how the left-wing “Attack France” movement described the speech of the Minister of the Interior, and the new immigration law that he seeks to implement, adding that this law “is not limited to its persecution of irregular immigrants,” but rather extends “to all foreigners, and then to all the workers in this country.” More generally, it “accelerates the downfall of the racist and authoritarian state, the society of inequality, control and surveillance.”

This is what the "Revolution Permanent" newspaper also considered a "widespread hate campaign" for immigrants, which the Macron government is seeking to launch, aiming to "make life impossible" for this segment of society. While the newspaper "Le Point" read in the draft law a procedure through which Darmanan would like to take his first steps in the course of running for the 2027 presidential elections, and presents himself as a more suitable successor to Emmanuel Macron.