“Mayotte necrosis immigration. It is a term which is hard but which reflects the reality that no one can ignore, “says Manuel Valls in an interview published on Saturday evening by Ouest-France.
Two days before the start of the school year in Mayotte, devastated by the Cyclone Chido in mid-December, the overseas Minister Manuel Valls believes that the archipelago is “necrotic” by immigration, which more generally should be “the closer to zero ”.
“Mayotte has already been folding for years under the weight of two plagues: irregular immigration and illegal habitat. They ventilate each other. 50 % of the population of Mayotte is foreign, including a majority in an irregular situation. This weighs on all aspects of the daily life of our compatriots, ”adds Manuel Valls, who has to go to the archipelago on Thursday and Friday.
Reinstatement of means of detecting illegal entries from the Comoros
The former Prime Minister pleads for “a very firm relationship with the neighboring Comoros”, from which thousands of immigration candidates go every year by boat.
“We must restore our means of detecting illegal entrances, part of which was destroyed by the cyclone. You need efficient radars. These tools will go upmarket with the aim of going from 25,000 to 35,000 renewed on the border, “he said.
The population of Mayotte is estimated by INSEE to some 320,000 inhabitants, half of whom are foreigners in an irregular situation.
New restrictions on the right to be French by being born in Mayotte will be debated in the National Assembly on February 6. The text carried by the elected officials LR proposes to expand the condition of presence to the “two parents”, and to extend the necessary duration of their regular presence on the territory to one year.
Regarding the hardening of the 2012 “Valls circular”, presented Friday by the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau and who calls on the prefects to tighten the screw on the regularization of undocumented foreigners, Manuel Valls ensures the latter of “everything his support ”. “Do we need new immigration?” In some sectors, yes, but the modified circular does not prohibit it (…). I am in favor of immigration closest to zero, ”he adds.
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