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France gets tough on illegal immigration, setting quotas for arrests, expulsions
The Boston Herald ^ | June 4, 2007 | staff

Posted on 06/04/2007 4:54:00 PM PDT by Cincinna

France set tough new quotas for the number of illegal immigrants authorities should arrest and expel each month, the new immigration minister said Monday.

Brice Hortefeux, who heads the newly created Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Co-Development, said a monthly quota also would be set for ferreting out those employed in France illegally.

In a meeting with security officials, Hortefeux reiterated President Nicolas Sarkozy’s goal of 25,000 expulsions by the end of 2007 - compared with 24,000 in 2006 - and set a year-end goal of 125,000 arrests for alleged illegal entry or illegal residence, a ministry statement said. The number of those already arrested was not immediately clear.

Sarkozy, who was elected May 6, pledged during his campaign to create a ministry of immigration and national identity to rein in the flow of migrants and ensure they are integrated into French society. Riots in French housing projects in 2005 were largely driven by anger among children of immigrants at persistent discrimination and a feeling of alienation from mainstream society.

Hortefeux said the new measures were aimed at "dismantling networks that exploit the misery of illegal immigrants," the statement said.

His orders came after he and Prime Minister Francois Fillon visited a holding center for illegal immigrants Monday _ and three days after the bodies of 18 illegal immigrants were fished from the Mediterranean by the crew of a French frigate.

The dead _ 12 men, two adolescent boys and four women _ were believed to be seeking new lives in Europe, though it was not clear what country they were coming from. They will be buried in France.

"The French Republic will be extremely firm. It will ensure laws are applied," Fillon said, adding: "Naturally, these laws must be applied with the greatest humanity."

Many saw Sarkozy’s proposal as a nod to the electorate on the extreme right, which long has made fighting immigration one of its main causes.

"Generosity is not opening wide the borders without thought for how people will integrate, how they will live, how they will subsist," Fillon said.

Hortefeux, in his meeting with security officials, also insisted on the need to develop a system of paying illegal immigrants to voluntarily return home, setting the number of paid departures at 2,500 for this year _ a 25 percent increase from 2006.

Those volunteering to leave, as part of a program started in late 2005, are given a fixed sum of money, normally $4,700 per couple, with $1,350 each for the first three children.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; bizarroworld; france; immigration; sarkozy; wot
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To: Cincinna

If things keep going in this direction, I am ready to renounce all anti-French jokes.


41 posted on 06/04/2007 6:16:02 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (If the GOP were to stop worshiping Free Trade as if it were a religion, they'd win every election)
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To: Cincinna

I certainly do hope that the U.S. government is truly paying full attention to what France is presently doing about this ongoing problem and that the U.S. will also soon be doing the same kind of things here! Wake up pro-amnesty politicians!


42 posted on 06/04/2007 6:23:51 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: nmh

I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then, I’m skeptical.


43 posted on 06/04/2007 6:29:21 PM PDT by conservatrice
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To: Cincinna
set a year-end goal of 125,000 arrests for alleged illegal entry or illegal residence

Wouldn't it be nice if we set those kinds of goals?
44 posted on 06/04/2007 6:58:31 PM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: Cincinna

the tables might soon be turned and the French will be calling us wusses, maybe even ‘surrender yankees’. i don’t want to believe it could happen.


45 posted on 06/04/2007 7:05:32 PM PDT by Swordfished
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To: Cincinna; Vicomte13

Where ever your at dude, take a bow, you called it months ago.


46 posted on 06/04/2007 7:07:30 PM PDT by investigateworld ( Abortion stops a beating heart.)
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To: Cincinna

Bump


47 posted on 06/04/2007 7:54:07 PM PDT by listenhillary (We will never run short of pessimism and pessimists)
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To: EagleUSA

This is really good news. This means there’s hope for us, too. If the French can wake up and “get it”, maybe the idiot voters here will, too.


48 posted on 06/04/2007 7:57:24 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Cincinna

I want to move to France!

Well—— not really, but -——


49 posted on 06/04/2007 7:58:36 PM PDT by Exit148 (Founder of the Loose Change Club. Every nickle and dime counts!!)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

Just got back from France and I was amazed that I felt safer in Paris then I do in my own city. They are not hung up on PC and want to keep the undesirables out of the city. That is why the low lifes are pushed to the suburbs.

We can learn some lessons from the French. They have pride and not riddled with white guilt.


50 posted on 06/04/2007 8:14:25 PM PDT by lone star annie
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To: Cincinna

I want one of those Presidents where can we get one?


51 posted on 06/04/2007 8:16:08 PM PDT by proudCArepublican
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To: Cincinna
Bought a bottle of Louis Jadot Beaujolais to celebrate.

Vive la France!

52 posted on 06/04/2007 8:17:03 PM PDT by stboz
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To: mdittmar

No doubt! Kudos to the French!


53 posted on 06/04/2007 8:20:32 PM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) 9/11: Many of us REFUSE to Forget!!)
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To: Army Air Corps; All

This story makes a very interesting contrast to a speech recently given by John McCain on the issue of illegal immigration. I still don’t get how McCain is still holding onto the lead spot or running in second with men like Romney or Thompson in the race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdyVwmZYUBc


54 posted on 06/04/2007 8:50:41 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: proudCArepublican
I want one of those Presidents where can we get one?

Apparently, we have to order one from France.
55 posted on 06/04/2007 9:03:16 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
The USA is the only country going in the opposite direction. Everyone else, including even Canada is tightening up their laws because they don't want to be overrun. Maybe in 20 years we can emigrate to the saner ones, if they'll take us refugees in.

New Zealand sounds inviting.

It is pretty pathetic, but then again I think we have a lot more corruption, and/or it's running deeper.
56 posted on 06/04/2007 9:06:45 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Cincinna

Most interesting.


57 posted on 06/04/2007 9:17:20 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: Cincinna
"Generosity is not opening wide the borders without thought for how people will integrate, how they will live, how they will subsist,"
58 posted on 06/04/2007 9:34:46 PM PDT by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: Tailback

—Who’d believe that France, has more sense than BUSH on this issue?

This is happening all over western Europe right now. My brother-in-law is Danish and Denmark in the past few years has instituted very strict immigration laws. A lot of folks in what we would consider very liberal countries are fed up with huge un-assimilated minorities leaching off of the social welfare system.—

Ralph Peters is right, he predicted this sort of European awakening back in 2003 (”Beyond Baghdad”). He was also wrong about the U.S. public embracing so-called comprehensive immigration reform.


59 posted on 06/04/2007 9:53:46 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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To: Cincinna

Several years way too late and billions of Euros short.


60 posted on 06/04/2007 10:26:52 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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