Mayotte: Gérald Darmanin continues his offensive on immigration

The text proposed by the Minister of the Interior was postponed at the end of the year and replaced by consultation and then a debate in Parliament. But he has already announced his intention to reform the law of the soil in the youngest of the French departments.

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It is placed at the front of the gendarmerie shuttle that goes on gray waters, off Mayotte. Immaculate white shirt, hands placed on the steel sector, focused on the horizon. Study, the installation is advantageous; He takes his time. The Minister of the Interior and Overseas Gérald Darmanin, who arrived on Sunday August 21 in Mayotte for a three-day trip, has just been bried by a high military ranking on operations to combat illegal immigration at sea.

The Maritime Surveillance Surveillance show allows, according to the authorities, to dissuade migrants from boarding the famous “Kwassas -Kwassas” – light engine boats – to try to join Mayotte from the neighboring archipelago of the Comoros, In the hope of accessing a better life, while benefiting from French public services, especially health. Each year, many Comorian women come to give birth on this small island lost in the Indian Ocean between East Africa and Madagascar, where more than one in two residents are foreign.

Accompanied by his Minister Delegate to Overseas, Jean-François Carenco, Gérald Darmanin-remained Place Beauvau after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, with an enlarged perimeter, whose overseas-undertook this long visit To illustrate the determination of the State to fight against illegal immigration.

populated by nearly 400,000 people, the island saw its population quadruple between 1985 and 2017 according to INSEE, under the combined effect of a strong birth rate and immigration. “If we do nothing, there will be 700,000 inhabitants in Mayotte in 2050,” he said in the world, recalling that in the presidential election, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen had come to the lead here in the first round. According to him, 40 % of the medical acts provided concern undocumented migrants, just like the hundred of classrooms built each year.

reform the right of the soil in Mayotte

The 101 e French department has the difficulties, economic and social – great poverty, youth unemployment, training problems – or security, with much higher delinquency than in France. Two days before the arrival of the Minister of the Interior, violent clashes opposed young people to the police, which happens regularly. Just like the pebbles of school buses or assaults in the street. The gendarmes must now frame hikes.

Gérald Darmanin who has multiplied on the summer fronts (fires, thunderstorms, urban rodeos) continues his offensive on immigration, began in mid-July with the announcement of a bill aimed at lifting ” All “legislative reservations preventing the expulsion of delinquent foreigners. The text, initially announced for the start of the school year, was postponed at the end of the year and replaced by consultation and then by a debate in Parliament in October, as Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne wished.

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