Sarkozy relents on deportation order of children
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has softened his stance on the expulsion of illegal immigrants' children from French schools.
Mr Sarkozy plans to spare about 1,200 children who faced expulsion and deportation with their families.
Since April, more than 40,000 people have signed a petition pledging to protect and house the children of immigrants to save them from expulsion.
An immigration bill adopted by the lower house envisaged such expulsions.
The bill is still being debated by the upper house of parliament, the Senate.
Anti-deportation campaign
A French pressure group called "Education Without Borders" has run an extremely successful grass-roots campaign against the deportation of illegal immigrants and their children - calling the government's plans a "childhunt", the BBC's Caroline Wyatt reports from Paris. French relent on migrant children
Mark Alexander
3 comments:
The liberalists will destroy France before it is over.
Since April, more than 40,000 people have signed a petition pledging to protect and house the children of immigrants to save them from expulsion.
As a teacher, I feel sorry for the children. But the line must be drawn!
We hear the same kind of thing here in the States. It amounts to the logic fallacy "plea to the people."
I have mixed feelings on this issue. Yet deportation of children is a thorny issue. However, there are generally large extended families in their native Countries.
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