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France Downgrades Citizenship Rights Of People Born in Mayotte.

Posted on 16th February 2024

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According to this report on the BBC, France has decided to take away the right of people born in Mayotte, a département de France located in the Indian Ocean, to have full French citizenship.

France has 5 overseas départements (French Guiana in South America, Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, Martinique in the Caribbean, Réunion in the Indian Ocean and Mayotte in the Indian Ocean), as listed on this Wikipedia page. A département is equivalent to a county, part of the nation of France, and people born there have always enjoyed the right to full French citizenship. Now, however, due to massive immigration, the French government has decided to strip away that right in Mayotte. It is probably only a matter of time until the same thing happens in the other 4 départements.

This is almost identical to what happened to the people of Hong Kong, where the British government took away the long-standing right of people born there to have full British citizenship before handing Hong Kong back to China.

This is part of the same trend that we see in other European countries, in the USA, in Canada and elsewhere, where immigration is being made progressively more difficult as governments pander to the racism of the voting public, despite the desperate need for immigrants in all these nations to boost their economies and solve the demographic problem of funding pensions. What happened to the idea of governments taking the moral high-ground?