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French Plan to Screen DNA of Visa-Seekers Draws Anger
Washington Post ^ | September 21, 2007 | Molly Moore

Posted on 09/21/2007 6:25:13 AM PDT by 3AngelaD

PARIS -- The French National Assembly on Thursday approved a controversial proposal authorizing the use of DNA testing to determine whether foreigners applying for visas are actually related to family members they seek to join in France. The plan, part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's efforts to make it tougher for foreigners from Middle Eastern and African countries to immigrate to France, prompted outrage from human rights groups, opposition politicians and some members of the president's cabinet.

The proposal, which also includes requirements that candidates for immigration be proficient in French and know the "values of the Republic," is part of a Europe-wide effort to curtail immigration in the face of growing public concern over the influx of foreigners and angst over the loss of traditional national identities.

"The parliamentary majority decided to use the current fear of globalization and nationalist ideas to draw a parallel between immigrants and cheaters," Dominique Sopo, president of SOS Racisme, one of the country's leading anti-discrimination groups, said ...

Sarkozy defended the proposed law, saying, "The DNA tests will be voluntary tests" designed to help officials determine family relations.

Opponents of the proposal said applicants would be pressured to submit to expensive DNA testing whenever French embassy authorities questioned the credibility of their birth certificates, marriage licenses and other documents....

Thierry Mariani, a member of Parliament from Sarkozy's ruling right-of-center Union for a Popular Movement party who sponsored the legislation, described DNA tests as a "sure and rapid" way to deal with document fraud....

Sarkozy campaigned on promises to crack down on illegal immigration. Brice Hortefeux, his minister for immigration and national identity, recently chastised local officials who were not meeting quotas for catching illegal immigrants and sending them back to their homelands, according to French news reports...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: documentfraud; france; immigration; islam
Sarkozy's government plans modest, long-overdue reform of immigration procedures and France's local left-wing, open-borders, kumbaya écrous scream bloody murder.
1 posted on 09/21/2007 6:25:15 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
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To: 3AngelaD
DNA testing to determine whether foreigners applying for visas are actually related to family members they seek to join in France.

It's just common sense.

2 posted on 09/21/2007 6:26:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: 3AngelaD
HEY JORGE!!!!!

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!


3 posted on 09/21/2007 6:28:38 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: 3AngelaD

3rd worlders been scamming, working this angle for years. Now France has lots of polygamous families. Mostly sub Sahara Muslim Africans sucking off a welfare like you won’t believe


4 posted on 09/21/2007 6:32:48 AM PDT by dennisw (When it flies into your eyes, even gold dust will blind you)
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To: dennisw

Yes. The words “honor” and “truth” do not figure greatly in any of the Muslim vocabularies. In Islam, “honor” is only understood as a pretext for killing female members of one’s family. Cheating and lying, however, are widely admired and practiced.


5 posted on 09/21/2007 6:43:01 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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Especially lying and cheating the infidel. They do restrain this behavior a bit with fellow Muslims.

- The infidel is fair game. Everything he needs to know is in the Koran including how & why to parasitize the infidel —


6 posted on 09/21/2007 6:47:31 AM PDT by dennisw (When it flies into your eyes, even gold dust will blind you)
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To: 3AngelaD

Hell, with all the cousin-marrying and in other inbreeding in these bassackward countries, France will be wasting its time; they’re all related.


7 posted on 09/21/2007 6:51:10 AM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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If you are being truthful then you have nothing to complain about. If you don't like it then stay the hell out of the country. Why do these idiots believe they have a RIGHT to emigrate to wherever they choose?
8 posted on 09/21/2007 7:21:02 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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“Why do these idiots believe they have a RIGHT to emigrate to wherever they choose?”

Because nobody has told them otherwise.

GWB tacitly approves of illegal aliens coming here.

The French have been that way for years.

A country with welfare simply cannot survive if every person in the world is free to come here.

All the good done in 1994 by reducing the welfare roles is being undone by illegal immigration.


9 posted on 09/21/2007 7:53:25 AM PDT by EEDUDE
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Well, it seems as if people are finally coming to realize what you say is true. Hopefully it will continue to change.


10 posted on 09/21/2007 8:15:47 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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Why do these idiots believe they have a RIGHT to emigrate to wherever they choose?

Easy answer because I heard a Mexican come up with it once. All these wretched 3rd worlders have a story about how their people were screwed and colonized by France, USA, what have you. Therefore they are owed residence in civilized countries. Of course nations such as Canada and Norway never had colonies but Canada Norway owes them too.

I've heard Haitians say they have a right to come here because Haiti helped us during the American Revolution. There is the tiniest grain of truth to this but they'll embellish it a million fold

With the Muslims it's slightly different. The infidel always owes the Muslims. Always. In Islam it is honorable and exceedingly clever to live off the labor of the infidel. You have shown fellow Muslims how smart you are. So Muslims have no shame about exploiting European welfare systems to the maximum and having Europeans pay for large Muslim families

11 posted on 09/21/2007 8:16:39 AM PDT by dennisw (When it flies into your eyes, even gold dust will blind you)
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To: 3AngelaD

It is done here in the USA, my coworker had to prove his daughter was really his daughter, she was born in Kenya....


12 posted on 09/21/2007 8:18:52 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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