2025 will see France enact new immigration laws.

According to a spokeswoman, as the country's new right-wing government looks to tighten immigration regulations, the French government plans to pass new immigration legislation the following year.

Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon told channel BFMTV on Sunday that "a new law will be needed."

The government's intention to strengthen border security and immigration laws is representative of the rightward turn in French politics that has occurred since this summer's legislative elections that produced a hung parliament.

The administration of Michel Barnier anticipates that the law will be brought before parliament in early 2025.

A Moroccan national has been identified as the alleged attacker in the September rape and murder of a Parisian student, a crime that has further stoked the immigration debate in France.

The administration desires to prolong the detention period for undocumented migrants deemed to be dangerous in order to better enforce expulsion orders.
One of the ideas being discussed is extending the 90-day maximum incarceration period to 210 days, which is now limited to terrorist offences.

Bregeon stated that "no taboos when it comes to protecting the French" and that "we don't rule out the possibility of considering other provisions."

France previously enacted an immigration bill in December of last year.

In order to win over the far-right and right-wing MPs, the bill was made more rigid.
However, before President Emmanuel Macron signed it into law, the majority of the proposed revisions were withdrawn due to criticism from the nation's top constitutional body.

A government source told AFP that the policies overturned by the Constitutional Council "will serve as a basis for the new immigration bill." A few of them might be modified and there will be additions.”
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, the most conservative member of the government, has promised to toughen immigration laws. Only a few days into his position, he has sparked controversy by declaring that "the rule of law is neither intangible nor sacred."
The hard-hitting measure last year was attributed to Retailleau, the former leader of the Republican party in the Senate.
Among other things, he wants to bring back the crime of unauthorised residence.

Macron's Renaissance party leader in parliament, Gabriel Attal, who succeeded Barnier, stated on Monday that a new immigration law did not appear to be a "total priority."

He told France Inter that "adopting a law for the sake of a law makes no sense."

"Taking action so that the state can truly control who enters and leaves" France, he declared, is the priority.