Thread: Why can't the US get tough?

Here---after the riots in Paris earlier this year, the people have finally woken up! To refresh---illegal immigrants of African and Moroccan origin set the city alight for weeks---this is the harvest that illegals will now reap!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5089744.stm


French immigration bill approved
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy said France needed immigrants who brought new skills
The upper house of the French parliament has passed a tough new immigration bill, weeks after it was adopted by the lower chamber.

The bill makes it harder for unskilled migrants to settle in France and abolishes the rights of illegal immigrants to remain after 10 years.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who drafted the bill, says it will bring France into line with other countries.

Critics say it is racist and accuse Mr Sarkozy of pandering to the far-right.

Mr Sarkozy, who is seen as a potential contender in presidential elections next year, says France must be in control of immigration, rather than a passive recipient.

'System failing'

The proposed law also requires immigrants from outside the European Union to sign a contract agreeing to learn French and to respect the principles of the French Republic, and makes it more difficult for them to bring their families over to join them.


PROPOSED NEW RULES
Only the qualified get "skills and talents" residency permit
Foreigners only allowed in to work, not live off benefits
Foreign spouses to wait longer for residence cards
Migrants must agree to learn French
Migrants must sign 'contract' respecting French way of life
Scraps law on workers getting citizenship after 10 years

Mr Sarkozy has argued that riots by youths in immigrant suburbs across France last November showed the system of immigration and integration was failing.

He says France, like a number of other Western countries, needs to choose the immigrants it needs.

Most immigrants living in France come from its former African colonies.

The proposed law has been criticised by many in the region, including President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal.

It's a sad, sad day when France wups the US in anything.

Their government idiots are the lesser of the idiots now
Who'd a thunk it.......

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs ... 13/48HOURS

France

End of the school year could mean deportation for many
Immigrants' amnesty lasts for academic year

By MOLLY MOORE
The Washington Post
June 16. 2006 8:00AM

Eight-year-old Andrianina Ralison's favorite subject is math, his sport of choice is basketball, he loves library books about nature and animals. His second-grade teacher at La Faiencerie Elementary School in the southern Paris suburb of Bourg-La-Reine describes him as one of the top achievers in her class.

Andrianina, a round-faced boy from Madagascar, is also an illegal immigrant. And under tough new immigration laws, Andrianina -along with hundreds of other schoolchildren and their parents across France - is scheduled to be deported to his native country the day after school ends July 4.

"Why don't they want us here?"Holiarisoa Ralison, 31, said her son asked the day she received the deportation order.

Across much of Western Europe, countries fearful of losing their national identities and anxious over struggling economies are seeking new ways to stem explosive growth in immigrant populations. The debates in Europe echo many of those heard in the U.S. Congress.

For now, the political consensus in France is to crack down, and last fall - as part of tougher new policies - authorities began pulling immigrant children out of school to be deported with their families. But many teachers, classmates and parents rebelled. Teachers at a school in central France hid students from the police, even at the risk of being fined thousands of dollars for helping illegal immigrants.

Other schools went on strike to protest the sudden evictions. Students and teachers staged street demonstrations. Local town halls run by Socialist officials who oppose the government's increasingly hard-line approach supported many of the families in their legal appeals to remain in the country.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, architect of the new assault on illegal immigration, relented and declared a temporary amnesty for families with children in school and agreed not to deport them until the end of the current school year.

Now, with the last days of the school year approaching, teachers and other activists are renewing their campaigns to protect students.

"Kids, teachers and parents are angry with the situation," said Richard Moyon, founder of the Education Without Borders Network, an association of teachers that organizes protests as part of its efforts to assist youngsters threatened with deportation. "One of the roles of a teacher is to teach kids the ideals of the republic - freedom and equality. How can teachers explain what freedom and equality are when you've got . . . children seeing their friends deported?"

Following pressure from Moyon's group and sympathetic politicians, the French Interior Ministry on Wednesday issued new guidelines to the local governing authorities that decide whether to grant residency papers to illegal immigrants. Families may be given more favorable consideration if their children have spent at least a year in French schools, were born in France or arrived at a young age and speak French fluently.

The guidelines are advisory only; local authorities are not required to use them.

The French government estimates that illegal immigrants number between 200,000 and 400,000. Officials suggest that at least 50,000 of those are children; advocacy groups say the number of children could total 100,000.

In the past two years, French authorities have stepped up raids on city streets and in immigrant neighborhoods, pressured employers to stop hiring illegal workers and rejected larger numbers of applications from immigrants seeking visas.

Deportations have increased by nearly 70 percent, from 11,692 in 2003 to 19,489 last year, according to the Interior Ministry.

Even with the new guidelines issued this week, the fate of the Ralison family remains uncertain.

"Even without papers, life here is 10 times better than in Madagascar," said Holiarisoa, sitting in the living room of the family's small apartment, where mother, father and two children share the same bedroom - adults on a lower bunk bed, children in the upper.

Now the family lives in daily fear of deportation. "Every time we hear a car stop, we think it's the police coming to get us," she said.

"We don't sleep at night. If my husband is late from work, I start panicking."

Do all these sob stories sound the same, or is it just me?

The government doesn't do anything because they WANT the invasion. They want to have our country joined with Mexico, Canada and eventually Central America. See other discussions on this subject.
It was only the grass roots efforts of the Minuteman that drew enough attention so that they had to do something (however token it is).
The people are the protectors of our freedoms. NOTHING will be done without the actions of the populace. Relying on the govt or govt officials will accomplish nothing or just delay their actions.