The Parliament of France has definitely adopted a bill to restrict the citizenship rights of children born in their territory in the Indian Ocean abroad of Mayotte.
The bill presented by the right does not affect the ‘land right’, also known as ‘Jus Soli’, for the rest of France.
But critics have criticized the bill as a concession to the anti -immigration on the right and fear that the road for additional restrictions throughout the country.
At present, a child born in France of foreign parents can be granted French nationality since the age of 13, providing that a certain amount of time has passed in France.
The additional conditions have existed since 2018 for Mayotte, a French archipelago that attracts a large number of migrants from its poorest neighbor, the Comoros Islands, who travel there irregularly in search of a better life.
Until now, children born in Mayotte also needed to have a father who had resided legal there for at least three months at the time of birth to request nationality.
With the new bill, both parents must have legally lived there for at least a year, with an exception for single parents.
The Senate approved a final text message on Thursday, and the members of the National Assembly of the Low House supported it on Tuesday.
Legislator Philippe Gosselin, from the right -wing center nominally, Les Républicins, proposes the bill.
“The possibility of obtaining French nationality is an undeniable factor in irregular migration,” the foreign territory said.
But the member of the Greens of Parliament Dominique Ibnet warned the bill “The end of land law in France”.
“Mayotte is about to become a laboratory for the ideas of the extreme right,” he said.
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Marine Le Pen, a parliamentary leader of the National Rally Party of the extreme right, said that the impact of the new law would be minimal and that there was an urgent need, “simply prohibit land law throughout the national territory.”
Le Pen is still a member of Parliament despite the fact that a court last week sentenced her to a five -year prohibition to run for the position to incubate funds from the European Union, charges he denies.
Around 320,000 people live in Mayotte, according to the National Statistics Agency of France.
A 2019 study found that half of the population were foreigners, a third of which were born in the French territory.
Prime Minister Francois Bayrou in February requested a national debate about immigration and what it means to be French, days after stirring controversy with comments on the France of immigrants.
Justice Minister Gerald Daranin said the Constitution must be changed to end citizenship rights granted to people born in France.
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