20.000 Algerian illegal immigrants contend to settle their status in France

More than 200.000 Algerian illegal immigrants, who are living on the French territory, started going to the headquarters of provinces and French police in order to benefit from the plan to settle the social situations of illegal immigrants, which would help only 30 foreigners, who do not have the necessary documents, after the inclusion of Algerians under this plan for the first time, and which entered into service on Monday.

Coordinator of the movement of Algerian Nationals in France, Omar Ait Mokhtar, told Echorouk that the number of Algerians, who live without documents on the French territory exceeds 200.000, most of them are youth from 20 to 30 years and thousands of them, have university degrees, therefor the settlement of the status of 30.000 foreigners is not an event, in view of the large number of Algerians in France, adding that even at the time of the French right, the number reached 30.000 files that were settled.

Amar Ait Mokhtar, asserted that associations and events of the community demands the Algerians’ complete freedom of movement between Algeria and France, and called for a real preferential treatment, through the agreements of Evian, and the Immigration Agreement of 1968 and the common interests between Algeria and France, by returning to the period which preceeded the Convention on immigration.

“Secretary of State in charge of the Algerian community should have moved, when it was announced that Algerians benefited of this publication, and this to the fact that the publication will help a small group of Algerians on one hand, and on the other hand it is considered as a first step towards the abolition of the advantages of Immigration Agreement for the year 1968. Algerian officials had to wonder and ask the question, why Algerians were included in this publication? And that in order to defend and retain the benefits contained in the Convention on immigration and the preferential treatment of the Algerians in France.