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".

“This has to stop!

", Estimated the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, traveling in the Alpes-Maritimes, a very right-wing department and a crossing point for thousands of migrants, despite a large and expensive police force at the border with Italy.

Quotas voted each year

Came to see Republican tenors like the deputy Eric Ciotti and the mayor of Cannes David Lisnard, but not the mayor of Nice, the ex-LR Christian Estrosi, held back by other obligations, she justified the emphasis placed on the restrictions of immigration by affirming that it was "at the heart of (our) project to restore order".

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

"Accelerated procedure" and automatic placement in a detention center

"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 the end of 2021) and of which “90% run away”.

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. ".

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