Illegal immigration to Mayotte: hardening of land law with uncertain effects

This text, much expected by local elected officials, includes the fight against illegal immigration.

Since 2019, the law of the ground is no longer applied in Mayotte, where Emmanuel Macron goes on Monday. A derogatory situation that was again hardened by the parliamentarians. France has thus changed the lives of thousands of young people who, although born and raised in Mayotte, are excluded from it.

The draft law that will introduce the Head of State provides for a set of structural measures with an important component devoted to illegal immigration that gangrene the archipelago.

DECRYPTAGE - Parliament has passed legislation to tighten the law of the soil in Mayotte, already limited since 2018. In the territory, any measures to combat illegal immigration are welcome. But its effectiveness is questioned.

Six months it lasts. Six months that the office of foreigners of the prefecture of Mayotte is closed to the public. Six months, therefore, that those who do not have French nationality and wish to regularize their situation are prevented from doing so.

The president goes to the archipelago to announce structural measures to revive the economy and curb illegal immigration, four months after the devastating passage of Cyclone Chido. Emmanuel Macron will preside this Monday over a Council of Ministers relocated to Mayotte, thus marking the importance attached by the executive to the critical situation of this French territory [...] The Mayotte article in crisis: Macron unveils a plan of "refounda…