“There will be a need for a new immigration law” in 2025, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon announced this Sunday on BFMTV, in particular to extend the duration of administrative detention of illegal aliens deemed dangerous.
This law will allow “the extension of the duration of detention in administrative detention centers”, she specified, one of the avenues envisaged being to increase the maximum duration from 90 to 210 days. But, “we do not refrain from thinking about other provisions”, added Maud Bregeon, judging that there should be “no taboo in terms of protecting the French”.
A discussion with all parliamentary groups
The executive wants this text to reach Parliament “early 2025”. The previous law on the subject, promulgated on January 26, 2024, was the subject of very tense debates in Parliament as well as within the former presidential majority. And the Macronist camp was able to get the text voted on thanks to the abstention of National Rally deputies. Several measures requested by Les Républicains had been censored by the Constitutional Council.
For the new bill, “we will discuss with all the parliamentary groups,” declared Maud Bregeon. “We are not going to seek the support of the National Rally,” she assured while Marine Le Pen, leader of the RN deputies, made the absence of a new law on immigration a “line red” which could trigger government censorship.
At the end of September, deputies from Laurent Wauquiez’s Republican Right group tabled a bill to extend the period of detention of dangerous illegal aliens after the murder in Paris of a young student, Filipina.
The very conservative Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, also defends this position. “I hear a lot of caricatures against him, he is not going to apologize for having ideas,” said Maud Bregeon.
