Former French Minister Dati Calls for Tougher Immigration Policies and Deportation Reforms

The expulsion of people on the "S" watchlist "is still a setback", estimated the former minister, interviewed on October 23 by Figaro Magazine on the new restrictions to fight against separatism. "These people are not deportable" and they will have to be kept in "preventive detention", she said. The problem of immigration in France persists while asylum applications have fallen in Europe, but not in France. To solve this problem, it would be necessary to "close the tap of arrivals in France", she added.

According to her statements, to fight Islamism in the large French neighborhoods, it will be necessary to "suppress the automatic acquisition of French nationality through marriage". An act that allows spouses to become French, regardless of their nationality, through the bond of marriage.

Rachida Dati also wishes to repeal "the impossibility of expulsion when one is a parent of a child born in France". As for unaccompanied minors, most of whom come from the Maghreb, the former Minister of Justice does not mince her words: they will have to be "sent back to their country of origin", according to the same source.