In a column published on the website of the newspaper Le Monde, more than 200 community leaders and celebrities point to a current failing situation in terms of the treatment of young migrants threatened with deportation.
They put forward several avenues to "reduce the arbitrariness of the prefectures" in this area.
The fate of many migrants, who have arrived in France as minors but threatened with deportation once they have reached the age of majority, represents a "terrible human and social waste", denounced Tuesday many personalities in a forum which proposes measures of "common sense" to promote their integration.
"The news has brought to light the situation of young foreigners who have been present in France for years, arrived either unaccompanied minors or with their families, in the course of studies, apprenticeship, often accessing employment in sectors in labor shortage and suddenly victims of refusal to stay with the obligation to leave the territory (OQTF) as soon as they come of age ", deplore in this text published on lemonde.fr more than 200 association leaders and celebrities, including Agnès Jaoui, Omar Sy or Lilian Thuram.
"Distress"
Several recent mobilizations, in particular from bosses who had started a hunger strike to obtain the regularization of their apprentices - such as the baker of Besançon Stéphane Ravacley, also a signatory of the platform - have revived the debate around the fate of these ex-minors. foreigners.
“Beyond these emblematic cases, young people in distress are numerous,” say the signatories.
"We are daily witnesses of a terrible human and social waste: to see young beings threatened with expulsion, reduced to live in fear, wandering and clandestinity, while France has become their country, that of their links , their friendships, their loves, and that they are ready to give back to society what it has invested in their training. "
Celebrities criticize 'absurd blockade'
To "reduce the arbitrariness of the prefectures", the authors propose in particular to "put an end to the generalized suspicion which weighs on many young people whose civil status documents are regularly contested, while their identity has been confirmed", or to "stop demanding documents that cannot be presented".
"We must put an end to the absurd blocking of requests for appointments at the prefecture, which, under the pretext of dematerialization, amounts to closing channels for regularization. Thus, young people, whom the law requires to apply for a residence permit before 19 years, are put in the impossibility to do it ", continues the platform.
"These are common sense measures, which would prove that the message of these young people, their educators and teachers, their employers, their trainers, has been heard."