Posted on 11/29/2005 8:04:17 AM PST by george76
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Tuesday announced tightened controls on immigration, part of the government's response to riots ...
Marriages abroad between French citizens and foreigners will no longer be automatically recognized in France, Villepin said...
The measure is to be adopted by parliament in the first half of 2006...
The prime minister also said the government should be able to enforce a law outlawing polygamy. There are 8,000-15,000 polygamous families in France...
Some French officials cited polygamy as one reason that youths from underprivileged Muslim households joined in the rioting, saying that children from large polygamous families often have social-behavioral problems stemming from a lack of a father figure.
President Jacques Chirac said two weeks ago that France must be stricter in enforcing the regulations of a law that allows immigrants to bring spouses and children to France.
Villepin said he would not put that law into question...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Uh, we've already lost the southwest. California and Texas are majority mex. Whites are a minority.
I moved to Tulsa thinking I might see some degree of sanity. Not so. Mex's are everywhere here, too. I even see ads for help wanted which say, "Non Spanish speaking people feel free to apply." That stinks. Bush stinks.
They walk around here like they own the place. So help me, I'll never vote for another candidate that doesn't promise to deport the criminal/illegal aliens, confiscate any business that employs such, and seal the borders.
One of the amusing things about the French changes...include a clause that says you must be proficient in French within a 8 to 10 year period. I'm going to guess that a test is going to be triggered, and the test won't exactly be simple. You will have to really speak and write the language. I'm guessing that assimilation will have to occur or you will find yourself back in the old country with electricity only running 12 hours out of the day and making barely $100 a week.
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