Elisabeth Borne says she is ready, in an interview with Le Figaro, to discuss the “modalities” of a residence permit for sectors that are struggling to find labor, point of the immigration bill which crystallizes the opposition of the Republicans. “The first logic is to allow all those who are here regularly to have access to a job”, underlined the Prime Minister. As for the residence permit for undocumented workers in shortage occupations, Elisabeth Borne makes it “an objective”, but whose “modalities are discussed”.
“With the creation of a residence permit in shortage occupations, the idea is not to create a breath of fresh air, but to take certain situations into account,” argued the head of government. At the end of May, the Ministry of the Interior was already suggesting that the government was ready to toughen its mechanism for regularizing undocumented workers in shortage occupations in an attempt to obtain a compromise with LR on the immigration text, the content of which must be clarified in July, after consultations with the right.
LR put pressure on the government by tabling two bills on immigration, one of which plans to include in the Constitution the possibility of derogating from the treaties and European law on immigration. In the other text, the Republicans exclude the regularization of undocumented workers from shortage occupations, considering it a “non-negotiable” point.
The current system sets several conditions for regularization: to have been on French territory for 3 years, to be in a job in tension, not to bring his family, to have worked for 18 months in these jobs in tension and to have a promise of ‘hiring. According to Beauvau, the government would be ready to increase the residence condition to “5, 6 or 7 years”, to set the income condition at 1.5 smic, and to add the obligation to have a permanent contract.
On the 1968 agreement with Algeria, which the president of Horizons Édouard Philippe proposes to review, she considers that it is a “sensitive subject” and that a treaty “it does not evolve if easily “. “We must act in the negotiation and the exchanges continue” with Algeria, which benefits in particular from derogatory rules in terms of family reunification.
Regarding the state medical aid which allows foreigners in an irregular situation to access care, and which LR would like to limit to urgent care, Élisabeth Borne does not consider it “not abnormal” that “we regularly ask ourselves questions” about the basket of care that this aid covers. She also claims that she is “not sure” that distributing the unaccompanied minors of Mayotte on the metropolitan territory is “the answer” to the difficulties of the island, as suggested in particular by Laurent Marcangeli.
The government is currently conducting a contested “Wuambushu” security operation in Mayotte, aimed in particular at combating unsanitary housing and deporting people in an irregular situation. Finally, Elisabeth Borne, from the left, assured, in the face of criticism from the right, of her determination to “move forward” on the subject of immigration, “by seeking efficiency, within the framework of the values of our country. “. “I don’t know what they are doubting!” I was prefect, I know the improvements needed, “she further pleaded.