Question 10756 — foreigners

Summary

Mr. Stéphane Peu alerts the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the extremely worrying situation experienced today by several dozen foreign minor children locked up with their families in administrative detention or in a waiting zone. In 2017, France broke a sad record with the confinement of 304 minors, an increase of 70% compared to 2016. In 2018, the associations responsible for supporting minors families speak of the confinement of at least 124 children. As of July 8, 2018, 8 children, including a baby, were in detention. However, while the debates concerning the law “For controlled immigration, an effective right of asylum and successful integration” have just resumed in the National Assembly, the Senate passed a provision aimed at regulating, and therefore legitimizing, the detention of accompanied minors, setting the deadline maximum of such retention at five days. This measure is both unnecessary and dangerous. It is useless in that it will not, in fact, limit the detention times of families since the average confinement periods are 48 hours for the vast majority of cases. This provision is also dangerous because it gives legitimacy, by its inclusion in the law, to a measure which until now was thought to be exceptional. The detention of minors, even if accompanied, represents a violation of the best interests of the child, the latter's place not being in dilapidated and unsuitable detention centers. It should also be remembered that the children concerned are very young and need special supervision that these centers do not offer: in 2017, more than half of the detainees were under six years old, and a quarter between 6 and 12 years old. Therefore, it would be unacceptable for the detention of children to become widespread, especially since French law makes house arrest the rule and detention the exception, and children must, more than any other individuals, always be protected by the law. It is therefore urgent to put an end to the detention of accompanied minors. He therefore wishes to know his ambitions on this subject which worries and rightly outrages many citizens.

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