Gérald Darmanin continues his offensive on immigration. The Minister of the Interior announced, during his trip to Mayotte on Sunday August 21, that he wanted to toughen the law of the soil in the 101st French department. A bill had been rejected by local elected officials at the beginning of the year. In Mayotte, the Minister of the Interior aims to complicate access to French nationality for children born in Mayotte.
This is the continuation of the Mayotte exception, put in place in 2018. A first strengthening of the law of the soil had been voted four years ago. Today, a child born on the island, of foreign parents, only has French nationality if one of his parents has resided on French territory on a regular and uninterrupted basis for more than three months before his birth. And it is this period that the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, wants to extend by increasing it to one year.
If this condition is met, the child is not yet French. He must wait, as for the rest of France, his 13 years. And he must have habitually resided in France since he was eight years old.
The Minister of the Interior wants, with this possible hardening, to fight against, what he calls, ” social and administrative attractiveness ” from France. According to INSEE, the population quadrupled in Mayotte between 1985 and 2017. The result of the high birth rate and immigration, mainly from the Comoros.
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