undocumented immigrants
FRANCE (TAMURT) – Hard blow for undocumented immigrants in France, including more than 300,000 Kabyles. The new French Prime Minister, Bruno Ratailleau, comes, against all expectations, to put an end to the Manuel Vals circular which consisted of regularizing undocumented immigrants who have 3 years of presence in France and at least 8 pay slips and also the families whose children have been educated in France for 3 years.
More than 30,000 people have obtained residence permits thanks to this initiative by Manuel Vals for more than 10 years. The chances of obtaining papers in France for foreigners in an irregular situation are shrinking like nothing else. There are approximately 300,000 undocumented Kabyles in France who fled the dictatorship of the Algerian regime. “I have been in France for 9 years and I have been working on a permanent contract for 7 years non-stop. My two children were born and educated in France. All our hopes are hanging on this circular from Manuel Vals, but the new Government recently appointed has given in to the extreme right. We are condemned to live without papers our entire lives. We might as well say that we are slaves,” regrets Smail, a Kabyle from Tazmalt, established with his family in the city of Lyon.
Kabyle independence leaders must come to the aid of undocumented Kabyles to ask European states, and especially France, to classify Kabylia as a conflict and colonized zone in order to benefit from international protection for the Kabyles. For example, the Kurds of Türkiye, who are in a similar situation to the Kabyles, easily obtain political asylum.
Idir Yatafen
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