Immigration: massive regularization, constitutionalization of the AME… At the PS, the shocking proposals of a deputy

He goes further than most of his comrades. As the presidential election approaches, the socialist deputy for Drôme, Paul Christophle, has set himself the ambition of rethinking the party's doctrine on immigration. “It’s a fundamental subject. The far right and the right are only going to talk about it in the campaign. The goal is to try to rationalize the debate and get it out of the ideological rut in which it is stuck,” says the parliamentarian. Paul Christophle intends to work on this without delay, starting by proposing the regularization of some 700,000 undocumented workers in 2027 alone.

This massive wave is based in particular on a Spanish precedent more than twenty years old, in 2005. That year, the socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero granted Spanish nationality to nearly 600,000 non-EU foreigners. All in just a few weeks. According to Paul Christophle, no “draw for air” subsequently…