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France Begins Mass Deportations Of Illegals
Policing of borders - and with it, the sensitive subject of immigration - is once again making the news in Britain. The UK is set to introduce new embarkation controls. Soon, leaving the country via ports or airports will be controlled by a uniformed border force.On the other side of the Channel, France has revealed plans to deport over 12,000 illegal immigrants. British Home Secretary John Reid says that there will be passport checks to ensure there is a record of who has left Britain. He adds that there will be more enforcement powers, resources and new technology. Those who need to be deported will be removed within six months of arrival. France is also in the deportation business. John Reid's counterpart, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy says that he expects to expel a proportion of the over 400,000 illegal immigrants that are in France today. But to sweeten the pill Sarkozy says he will grant 'papers' ie, permanent residency, to 6,000 applicants. The situation in France is ironic in the sense that Sarkozy is the son of an immigrant. And deportation is a dirty word in the republic because so many citizens were sent to German SS concentration camps during the war. Some French groups have played up the comparison by "sheltering" children destined to be returned to their parents' country from the authorities, drawing parallels with how Jewish children were concealed from the Nazis by sympathetic French families. Associating M Sarkozy with the Nazis - as the protesters clearly intend to do - is in questionable taste, not least because the minister's father fled Hungary during WW2. It doesn't seem to have deterred the government, however: In the end the offical message is: we like you, but not in our back yard. Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-08-01 |
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