Friday, January 13, 2006

France's impoverished immigrants stay home / NewsFromRussia, 12 Jan 2006

http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2006/01/12/71064.html
"Wives and children of France's impoverished immigrants should stay in their home countries instead of leading isolated lives in cramped French housing projects, France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said. Sarkozy, a presidential hopeful who has championed a clampdown on immigration, urged restrictions on immigrants bringing family members to join them in France. 'An immigrant woman, trapped at home, who doesn't speak the language because her husband doesn't let her leave and doesn't put her in contact with literacy groups or French lessons, cannot have the right to residence,' Sarkozy said in a New Year's address to the media. 'You cannot regroup families when you have eight children and a studio of 10 square meters (110 square feet),' he said. 'You can bring your family if you have the means to house them and allow them to live.' "