French protest against tough immigration law

[struggle4progress]

26/08/2006 - 16:25:36

Several thousand people demonstrated in Paris today to demand residency permits for the country’s illegal immigrants.

The march, led by anti-racism groups, labour unions and left-leaning political parties, marked the 10th anniversary of a stand-off between immigrants and police at Paris’ Saint-Bernard church.

Marchers protested against a tough new immigration law that makes it harder for people in the country illegally to obtain residency permits.

Marchers also denounced the recent eviction of more than 500 people, many of them illegal immigrants, who were squatting at a former university residence in the Paris suburb of Cachan.

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=193471534&p=y9347zz4x

[BayCityProgressive]

1. I am not real familiar

with the politics of France...but las I heard they had an unemployment rate of like 10% and tons of rioting and tensions between the immigrant population and the citizens of France....shouldn't they take care of some of these issues before they let thousands of more people come into their country?