Migrants: Council of State refuses to suspend controversial miners' file

For the Council of State, there is "no serious doubt" on the legality of the decree creating the controversial file of young foreign migrants.

The Council of State refused to suspend the controversial file of young foreign migrants, saying that there was "no serious doubt" about the legality of the decree, attacked by associations who see it as a measure to fight against irregular immigration.

"The requests of Unicef ​​and others as well as the National Bar Council are rejected," said the Council of State in an order dated April 3, published Thursday, rejecting point by point the arguments put forward by the plaintiffs.

"The best interests of the child are ignored"

Nineteen associations led by Unicef ​​had urgently seized the Council of State against this biometrical file of unaccompanied minors (MNA), which provides for increased intervention by prefectures to assess the age of young people seeking care and the crossing of several files. The judge of interim relief "is based mainly on the arguments of the Ministry of the Interior, in doing so, the best interests of the child is ignored," lamented these associations in a joint statement.

According to them, this decision "constitutes a green light for the deployment of the device at the national level, even though in the pilot departments (Isère, Essonne and Bas-Rhin), we already see its deleterious effects", including "a deterrent effect "and" an absence of guarantees ". The State Council has in particular endorsed the intervention of the prefecture agents who "merely collect" fingerprints and vital statistics, as well as the consultation of the file of visa applications (visabio), criticized by the complainants for its unreliability.

In Marseilles, 174 underage migrants get shelter in a hotel

After having squatted for more than three months for some a building of the diocese of Marseille, 174 unaccompanied minor migrants (MNA) were relocated to the hotel on Thursday, we learned from the county council. "There is no more ANM that is not immune," said the department Thursday evening, confirming information Marsactu.fr site.

"Juveniles who already have a PPO (judge's temporary placement order) are at the hotel, but also those who are waiting for assessment, until the judge's final decision so it is not nothing, "said Anne Gautier, spokesperson for Collective 59, which supports NAMs.