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French President Under Fire for Treatment of Migrants
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s answer to a recent spate of violence between immigrants and police: tighter immigration controls.
More than 2,000 miles away from the current epicenter of the U.S. immigration debate – Arizona – and the dusty militarized border with Mexico, France’s president has come under fire for rights abuses against immigrants near the country’s capital.
A video posted on French video site Dailymotion.com shows French police violently breaking up a demonstration of mostly African immigrant women, protesting their eviction from a housing complex outside of Paris. Some of the women, one of whom was pregnant and another who had been carrying her small son, had already had French citizenship, while others had paperwork in process, according to news reports.
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Police defended their actions and called the video misleading. Meanwhile, in a speech last Friday in the southeastern city of Grenoble, President Sarkozy continued to stoke the fire, announcing that he will push to strip foreign-born French citizens of their citizenship if they threaten the lives of police. He also is trying to ease restrictions for the eviction of Gypsies from camps, and blamed them for criminal activities.
Rights activists and political opponents railed on Sarkozy and his response, dismissing it as a means to detract from a recent scandal over allegedly illegal campaign funding from France’s richest woman, Lilliane Bettencourt, the only daughter of the founder of the L’Oreal corporation.
The rising tension in France over immigration is nothing new for Europe, where many nations have supported a general crackdown on undocumented migrants in recent years. In 2008, the European Parliament gave the green light to allowing member nations to detain illegal immigrants in detention centers for up to 18 months and impose a five-year ban on re-entry by deported immigrants.
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