A total of 11,300 migrants have benefited from the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) Program since 2005. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Moroccan Government are in charge.
At the opening of the meeting of the conservative and identitarian right around Marion Maréchal, the polemicist Eric Zemmour launched, last Saturday, into a diatribe against "colonizing" immigrants and the "Islamization of the street". He adopted the conspiracy and controversial thesis of the "great replacement" of populations.
A Moroccan residing abroad (MRE) was arrested at his home in Hay Chrifa, Casablanca, by the Aïn Chock police services, for threatening his friends with a firearm.
The debate on immigration is far from over in France. After the speech by Emmanuel Macron on Monday, September 16, there will be a major debate in Parliament on France’s immigration policy during the same month. If the issue raises so many questions that have not yet found answers, it divides the French and leaves the country deeply fractured. This is what Othman Nasrou tries to relate in one of his columns.
During a meeting with his majority and his Government, the French President, Emmanuel Macron , called on his supporters to be firm on immigration. Instead of being a "bourgeois party", La République en Marche (LREM) wants to focus on this problem facing the working classes, who have migrated to the far right.
An Ipsos poll published on Friday, September 13, reveals that 60% of the French see migrants as a threat. 65% of them believe that welcoming them will not improve the country’s situation and, according to 45%, the arrival of migrants "deprives the French of social services". At the same time, 54% of respondents believe that the French should be given priority in job allocation.
On RTL, the French Head of State made a point of addressing immigration, just as he had done a week earlier during a dinner at the Elysée. Considering this lack of interest among his fellow citizens, describing it as "cultural insecurity", Emmanuel Macron has invited his entourage to take a greater interest in this issue, whatever the cost.
In the absence of reception facilities, France is (almost) unable to manage the influx of unaccompanied minor migrants, especially the "lost children of Morocco", left to their own devices.
Morocco is once again in the sights of the Spanish far-right party, Vox. This time, the formation of Santiago Abascal is asking the Spanish Government to stop all financial aid granted to Rabat.
The José Cabanis Media Library is hosting an exhibition that focuses exclusively on Maghrebi immigration in the Pink City, Toulouse. It opens on September 10 and will last four months.
The issue of integration in France was at the heart of a program on LCI on Wednesday, September 4. Invited to speak on the matter, the journalist Zineb El Rhazoui stated: "Sometimes, there is not really a willingness to integrate on the part of those who come."
The Moroccan-American rapper, French Montana, delivered a pro-immigrant speech during the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony in Newark, New Jersey. He positioned himself as a defender of immigrants in the United States.