A SUBURB of Paris could have as many as 400,000 illegal immigrants crammed into it, according to a parliamentary report.

Politicians have warned Seine-Saint-Denis, north east of Paris, could be turned into a “huge ethnic ghetto” within two decades due to the surging numbers.

2 The district now holds as many as 400,000 illegal immigrants, according to a parliamentary report

The report said the suburb – just six miles from the Eiffel Tower – is putting a huge strain on public services and creating social tensions.

Illegal immigrants are now estimated to make up a fifth of the population of Seine-Saint-Denis. The official legal population is estimated at 1.5 million.

The numbers continue to rise, as an estimated 80 migrants arrive in Paris every 24 hours — 550 a week.

After the break-up of the refugee camp in Calais, thousands of migrants moved to suburbs in the capital where charities say hundreds of children are sleeping rough.

Seine-Saint-Denis is popular with immigrants because of its location and efficient transport links, including the railway lines heading towards the North coast, and Britain. It’s also only a few hours from the Channel ports of Calais and Dunkirk.

In May French riot police cleared more than 1,000 migrants and refugees from a makeshift canal in Saint-Denis where they had been sleeping on pavements under bridges.

Rodrigue Koukouendo, from President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party, and François Cornut-Gentille from the centre-Right Republicans, who authored the report, want the government to review France’s ban on gathering data on the ethnic make-up of the population.

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2 The district now holds as many as 300,000 illegal immigrants, according to a parliamentary report

They want illegal immigrants entering France to be better monitored and regulated.

They wrote: “To identify urban phenomena of ghettoisation, to explain educational difficulties, to combat discrimination and to adapt the resources of the police and the judiciary to a specific population, the question of establishing so-called ethnic statistics is raised.”

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French law currently prohibits the collection of data based on race, ethnicity or religion.

Between 8 and 20 per cent of the suburb’s population are not registered with the authorities and many turn to crime or the “black economy” to earn money.

The report says plans must be put in place to tackle poverty, high unemployment and trafficking of people and drugs which is rife in some districts.

-A previous version of this article reported that there were 300,000 illegal immigrants in Seine-Saint-Denis. A parliamentary report which was a source for the article had contained estimates that the area was home to between 150,000 and 400,000 illegal immigrants; it did not conclude that there were 300,000 illegal immigrants in the area. The reference to 300,000, which appeared in the headline and first sentence, was an estimate and not a statement of fact that there were precisely 300,000 illegal immigrants in the area. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

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