"Freedom, for me, is something I haven't had for a long time." An undocumented Comoran migrant expresses his fear amid a step up in police checks on irregular migrants on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. "I would like to have a stable life, to succeed, like any other human being," he says. Some 1,800 members of the French security forces have been deployed for "Operation Wuambushu" to clear slums on the island and expel the migrants, mostly from the Comoros. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES