Several voices from the Republicans denounced Sunday the proposal of the deputies Aurélien Pradié and Pierre-Henri Dumont to launch a referendum of shared initiative on immigration. They consider that this proposal would be unconstitutional.

The postponement to the autumn of the immigration bill "constitutes a major political resignation", say the deputies. They believe that "the quota policy is not up to the migratory challenge" and that it is now necessary to "move from underqualified family immigration to overqualified chosen labour immigration"