A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #346 - Anti-fascism, Immigration Law: After the decision of the Constitutional Council, the fight continues (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The mythical "republican barrier" on the far right has long since 
exploded and the RN is proclaiming an "ideological victory". Beyond the 
symbolic aspect, this project would have very concretely constituted a 
serious deterioration of the rights and living conditions of hundreds of 
thousands of French people and foreigners in the country. ---- The law 
amended by the Senate adopted the principle of "national preference" of 
the RN. The inability to obtain access to social benefits would have 
plunged tens of thousands of already isolated families and individuals 
into poverty.

The questioning of land law and the prospect of dual nationals 
potentially being deprived of their nationality confirmed an inequality 
of rights between citizens depending on their origin.

This law led to the criminalization of undocumented immigrants and 
foreigners: offense of irregularity, expulsions for "disturbing public 
order" or "non-respect of the values of the Republic", imposition of an 
expulsion bond on non-European students. Humiliating measures exposing 
foreigners to the arbitrariness of justice and the police while 
effectively placing their supporters as accomplices to crimes.

More and more obstacles were placed in the way of visa applicants: 
systematization of OQTF for people rejected from asylum and ITF 
(Prohibition from French territory) for those found guilty of crimes, 
restriction of family reunification and justice made ever more hastily 
in the examination of asylum applications.

Continue the mobilization
The mobilization against this law was launched more than a year ago by 
collectives of undocumented immigrants, union sections of undocumented 
workers, associations and the Marche des Solidarités.

Since October, mobilization has increased. More than 400 organizations 
opposed to the project brought together tens of thousands of people 
across the country. The national demonstrations of January 14 and 21 
further demonstrated the increase in mobilization against the project. 
Certain sectors, particularly education and health, have filed notices 
of strikes, which had already broken out last October on Olympic sites 
employing undocumented workers.

The decisions of the Constitutional Council are far from having buried 
the movement and new national mobilizations should continue from February 3.

Censorship far from sufficient
The censored measures cited were for formal defects rather than for 
their racist nature. Nothing says that these measures will not be 
proposed again to the Assembly in the months to come. Worse, several of 
the worst measures have been retained: loss of nationality, end of 
collegiality in the examination of asylum applications, non-issuance or 
renewal of the residence permit in the event of "non-compliance with the 
principles of the Republic" , systematization of OQTFs for rejected 
asylum seekers and ITFs for people found guilty of crimes.

We could not count on a reactionary institution to protect us from 
fascism. It is in our places of life, work, study and in the streets 
that a real anti-racist force will be able to oppose the destruction of 
land rights, asylum and the creation of undocumented immigrants. .

Papers for everyone, now, or no papers at all!

UCL Anti-Racism Commission

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Loi-Immigration-Apres-la-decision-du-Conseil-Constitutionnel-la-lutte-continue
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