Immigration is one of “Scourges” Who “Mayotte necrosis” and should generally be “The closest to zero”. These sentences were not pronounced by Marine Le Pen or Eric Ciotti, but by Manuel Valls, in the columns of Ouest-FranceSaturday January 26. After having made relatively low profile for his first steps, the former Prime Minister, converted into an overseas minister, led to his vision of immigration at length, especially in Mayotte, in terms that would not deny the 'extreme right, whose anti-immigration speech met with a certain electoral success in the department of the Indian Ocean.
“A very firm relationship with the Comoros”
On the eve of the start of the school year on the devastated island in mid-December by the Cyclone Chido, Manuel Valls, who is due to go to the archipelago on Thursday and Friday, said that “Mayotte necrosis immigration” – “A term which is hard but which reflects the reality that no one can ignore”, According to the Minister. “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 ”, added Manuel Valls, pleading for “A very firm relationship with the Comoros” Neighbors, where thousands of immigration candidates go by boat every year in 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, while the island has to face a huge reconstruction project.
-Hardening of the “Valls circular”
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.
About the tightening of the “Circular Valls” From 2012, 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 assured his very right-handed colleague of “All his support”. “Do we need new immigration?” In some sectors, yes, but the modified circular does not prohibit it […]. I am favorable to immigration closest to zero, to the establishment of quotas – but it takes a reform of the Constitution – to what the irregular trees and a real republican assimilation are effectively expelled, “-It added.
