In full debate on immigration, a parliamentary report, presented this morning, proposes to support the 101st department of France by distributing Comorian immigration on the whole of all the French territory. A politically explosive proposal. Jean-Rémi Baudot’s Political Brief.
In Mayotte, the health system is “udon’t time bomb“This is what a parliamentary report described on Wednesday that franceinfo was able to consult exclusively. This report, written by two elected officials, Laurent Marcangeli, Horizons deputy from Corsica, and Estelle Youssouffa, Liot deputy from Mayotte, is presented in full debate on immigration and provides for the first time figures on health in Mayotte.This 75-page report dissects the issues and impacts of migratory flows.
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This report also makes an unprecedented parallel: a comparison between the Greek island of Samos, the Italian of Lampedusa and the French of Mayotte. We learn that these three territories, plagued by significant illegal immigration, have the same problems, with asphyxiated public services (security, health, education, etc.), supply difficulties (water and food). But if these three islands are within the European Union, they do not all have the same management of the migration issue.
In Mayotte, 90% of PMI consultations are Comorian mothers
Italy and Greece, which saw a massive influx in 2015, have set up reception centres, “hotspots” to register refugees and transfers from the islands to the mainland for migrants. While in Mayotte, the lack of care has given rise to slums that the state is currently trying to dismantle. Mayotte, described in this report as “a time bomb”. Mayotte where the health system is overheated. It has become commonplace, but for the first time, the deputies obtained figures from the ARS, the Health Authority of Mayotte.
We knew that Mayotte was the largest maternity hospital in Europe. 90% of consultations in PMI are Comorian mothers, but we also learn that last year, Mamoudzou Hospital treated almost as many French people as foreigners. 93,626 French against 85,567 foreigners. A near equality in the number of patients. Except that Mayotte does not have the famous AME, state medical aid. This means that all these health expenditures made for foreigners are made on the budget of the Mayotte Hospital, they are not compensated by the State endowment of the AME. It obviously does not exist in any other department and it weighs on the health of Mahorais.
Should Comorian migrants be distributed throughout France?
Finally, the report makes recommendations, including the establishment of State Medical Aid in Mayotte so that the health budget on the island is no longer cut in half by the health expenditure of foreigners. The AME will thus be able to compensate. The report also calls for the reinforcement of patrols between Mayotte and the Comoros.
Finally, much more explosive: the report recommends the end of the “Territorialized Visa in Mayotte”, a slight detail which means that a regularized Comorian cannot leave Mayotte. Indeed, Mayotte is an exception to the rule: two residence permits coexist, the local one which is rather a temporary residence permit and another for 10 years, the same as that issued by all the prefectures of France.
However, this “territorialized” residence permit on the island is at the heart of a controversy: the beneficiaries stranded on the island cannot leave the department unless they meet the precise conditions defined by the administration, with in particular “family ties in France”, “services rendered to France” or if the applicant benefits from “international protection”. Many Mahoran elected officials have also been asking for the restriction to be lifted for years, without success.
Breaking this lock would allow Comorian immigration to be distributed throughout France. A proposal that will not fail to speak in the middle of the debate on immigration.