Presidential 2022: the right of asylum and unaccompanied minors in the sights of candidate Pécresse

“This has to stop!

The right-wing presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse proposed Wednesday to review the procedures on the right of asylum and the protection of unaccompanied foreign minors which, according to her, gives rise to "uncontrolled immigration flows".

The former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy was on the move in the Alpes-Maritimes, a very right-wing department and a crossing point for thousands of migrants, despite a large and costly police device on the border with Italy.

Come to see Republican tenors like the mayor of Cannes David Lisnard or the deputy Éric Ciotti, with whom she went to the Italian border, she justified the emphasis placed on immigration restrictions by saying that it was “At the heart of (our) project to restore order”.

In Menton, on the Italian border with @vpecresse.

20,000 migrants have already been arrested since the start of the year, mainly from North Africa.

France no longer has the means to undergo mass immigration, it is urgent to stop it!

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- Eric Ciotti (@ECiotti) July 28, 2021

“The integration issues are very important.

If we want to remain a land of asylum, that means immigration choices and quotas voted each year by Parliament, ”she told the press.

The mayor of Nice, the former LR Christian Estrosi, was held back by other obligations,

"To reject those who are there to abuse our rights"

"The law is poorly made, it was changed under François Hollande to allow pseudo-minors to refuse to submit to minority tests", she said.

"You can see that it is dysfunctional," she added, pointing to the surge in the number of foreign minors taken care of by the Alpes-Maritimes (174 in 2014, 2,683 in 2020, probably 4,000 by end of 2021) and of which “90% run away”.

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In matters of asylum, she proposed that requests be lodged abroad "in embassies or consulates" or, where appropriate, at the border according to an "accelerated procedure" inspired by the waiting zone of the Parisian airport of Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle.

According to her, the applicant would be placed in a detention center, then returned if he is unsuccessful: "It's going quickly and it allows us to give asylum to those who need it, and to dismiss those who are there to abuse our rights. ".