About fifteen associations denounced, Monday, December 5, the government bill on immigration, “continued deterioration of the rights of migrants”, on the eve of its presentation to the National Assembly during a debate without a vote. The text, the main lines of which are already known, will be the 29th on asylum and immigration since 1980.
“An umpteenth bill (…) which always goes in the same direction, (…) a restriction of reception conditions and a continuous deterioration of the rights of migrants”pointed out Fanélie Carrey-Conte, secretary general of Cimade, during a press conference bringing together around fifteen associations at the headquarters of Amnesty International France in Paris.
This law project “cuts a little more the right to asylum, the right to a normal family life, the rights of the child and the right to a fair trial”according to the president of Amnesty International France, Jean-Claude Samouiller.
Several reasons for concern
In question, in particular, the will of the government to impose an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) as soon as the asylum application is rejected, without waiting for a possible appeal. A measure that generates “risks of illegal refoulement”before all the remedies are exhausted, according to Jean-Claude Samouiller.
Another reason for concern: the extension of the use of a single judge to the National Court for the Right of Asylum (CNDA), which rules mostly collegially, combined with a territorialisation, on the network of administrative courts, of this body currently based in the Paris region and divided into geographically specialized chambers.
“The judge will have to be aware of all the persecutions in the world. We are moving from a specialist situation to a generalist situation, and that is [le juge] only one who will make his decision in front of people who risk their life”underlined Jean-Claude Samouiller.