Interior Minister Bruno Letailot at the National Assembly in Paris, October 2, 2024. Julien Muguet of Le Monde
Despite rumors that preceded its inauguration, French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government was created when President Nicolas Sarkozy was elected in 2007 and abolished in 2010. Did not revive the ministry. However, at the Ministry of the Interior, Bruno Lutailot met on Tuesday, October 8th. There are governors who represent their states in 21 executive branches, which account for 80% of the country’s deportation actions. This meeting was followed by a large meeting in which all the governors listened to the Home Secretary’s list of five priorities, the first and most detailed of which was immigration.
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“He said that he wanted to respond to the will of the people and that what was important was the result of the first round of parliamentary elections,” one meeting participant reported, speaking on condition of anonymity. The contents of these talks were reported to Le Monde newspaper. In the first round of elections held on June 30th, the far-right Rassemblement National Party (RN) came first, but in the second round of voting on July 7th, it was demoted to third place by the Republican Front.
His predecessor as Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, was a former member of Letaillou’s party, the Republican Party (Republican, right-wing), and had proposed that he be “mean to mean people and kind to nice people.” He made his aspirations very clear. Reducing immigration, including legal immigration. The issuance of French residence permits follows a continuous upward trend, driven by students, professionals and humanitarian migrants.
“The governor should report to him.”
Recognizing that in the absence of a parliamentary majority, they have more freedom to act through executive action than through legislation, the minister announced new instructions to governors. The first text is displayed to set the target. “He is asking governors to report and provide data on the increase in deportations and the decrease in regularizations,” one governor explained.
Regarding deportation, the Minister made use of the provisions introduced in the Immigration Act of January 2024 to ensure that some categories of foreigners (such as foreigners who arrived in France under the age of 13) receive a large number of exemptions from deportation. requested that the protection be lifted.
The second set of instructions is aimed at addressing the regularization of illegal immigrants. This would replace a 2012 directive from former Interior Minister Manuel Valls that set standards for the regularization of illegal aliens, but that directive has been applied unevenly across the country. Existing measures allow around 30,000 illegal immigrants to obtain residence permits each year on the grounds of their private or family life in France. This is especially true for parents of children who have been in school for more than three years. The paid work they do.
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