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France: Expelling Illegal Immigrants

Monday, April 30th, 2007 @ 08:30 UTC

by Jennifer Brea

Countries:: France
Topics:: Ethnicity, Human Rights, Law, Protest

Continuing the debate on expelling illegal immigrants living in France, SEMEtt ou l'étincelle noire (Fr) writes about a political asylee who was shipped back to Liberia, a group of long-term illegal immigrants who decided to form an organization to publicly demand naturalization, and how the mass explusions are eroding civil liberties and human rights in France.

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Justin

Good for France, illegals should not be in any country.

If you want to move to a country, you need to go there legally – period.

Speaking of which as an American, I once visited Germany and stayed longer than I was supposed to by almost half a year – I was found, arrested, imprisoned – American authorities were notified and I was sent back to the U.S.

Can I sue Germany? – No! I broke their law.

# 2007-05-6 at 19:21 pm

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justin is a lie

Pure lie
i am a German national and I can tell you Justin is lying
they is no prison arrests for persons that overstay in Germany especially not Americans

Justin i dare you to provide proof

stop lying and spreading your racist attitudes
“im the law im the law ” thats all the usa can say
remember the nazis made laws also

we will never allow that to happen in germany again

# 2007-05-9 at 23:11 pm

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# 2007-08-21 at 9:57 am

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