France Introduces Tougher Immigration Bill, Raising Outcry
- Proposal seen testing unity of Macron parliamentary majority
- Human rights organizations, charities call the bill repressive
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President Emmanuel Macron is putting the unity of his parliamentary majority to a test with legislation that will tighten controls over immigration to France, speed up deportations and tighten qualifications for asylum, and which human rights organizations are casting as repressive.
The government presented the bill Wednesday during its cabinet meeting. It will then be discussed by the laws committees in the two chambers of Parliament, with amendments put forth by opposition parties on both the right and the left, before being debated in April, officials said.