Saturday, July 08, 2006

[France] Amnesty for 'thousands' of illegal immigrants / Expatica, 6 Jul 2006

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"French officials said that thousands of illegal immigrant families with children enrolled at French schools are to be given legal status, following a grassroots campaign against their deportation. "We know that we are going to grant residency papers to several thousand families," Paris police chief Yannick Blanc said in an interview appearing in Le Monde newspaper. A nationwide protest movement has sprung up over plans to expel thousands of illegal immigrant families whose children are in French schools."