Prime Minister Edouard Philippe presented the "immigration plan" to the French parliament where they’re expected to spark much debate.
Among the most controversial of the policies in the plan is a new three-month waiting period or "delai de carence" before asylum seekers can access basic healthcare coverage.
Other policies in the plan include clearing migrant camps on the outskirts of Paris before the end of 2019, and quotas for industries that need to recruit skilled migrants.
The government wants certain sectors, which are most in need of workers, to be able to recruit migrant workers. The PM has already said that the idea of quotas for economic migrants in certain industries should no longer be taboo.
Philippe confirmed that parliament would in future set annual sectoral "goals or quotas" on skilled migration from non-EU countries, similar to the systems in place in Canada and Australia.
The quotas will be based on a list of professions in which employers would be exempted from having to prove that the job cannot be filled by a French person.
English 
العربية