Valls opposes Retailleau and Darmanin on the right of the soil

The fracture is felt within the government on the law of the soil. On this question, the Overseas Minister Manuel Valls does not have the same vision as his colleagues Bruno Retailleau (interior) and Gérald Darmanin (Justice).

The debate agitates the political class while the National Assembly adopted last week a bill brought by the right and supported by the government aimed at tightening the restrictions on the right of the soil in Mayotte, during a stormy session.

Valls fears “a historic fracture”

“The particularly dramatic situation of Mayotte”, the poorest department of France subject to strong migratory pressure due in particular to its proximity to the Comoros, “led to clearly support the tightening of the right of the soil on the archipelago” of the ocean Indian, writes Manuel Valls in an “opinion” published by La Tribune on Sunday.

However, beyond Mayotte, “completely questioning an ancient principle of our law, which dates back to the old regime and which all the republican laws have devoted, would be a historical fracture,” said the former Prime Minister. “The law of the soil can have an integrative dimension, because a child born in France and who has resided there since he is small has developed an attachment to our country,” he argues.

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While considering that “the annual number of legal entries, to which are unfortunately added the illegals, has become unbearable” on French territory, the former head of government deems “questionable” the postulate according to which the law of nationality would feed immigration. “No one comes to France with the aim of acquiring nationality. The Air Call comes from our right to stay, from our law from foreigners, from our social and health system, from our too much laxity, but not from our civil law, “notes the minister, for whom” he should not give in to all facilities ”.