Sarkozy ‘Silently’ Softens Stance on Illegal Workers

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By Fabio Benedetti-Valentini
Bloomberg

Koutoubo Gassama spent a week in a Strasbourg detention center in October waiting to be expelled to Senegal as part of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s clampdown on illegal http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1331. Instead, the 27-year-old cook was granted permission to stay on a temporary work visa.

Gassama, who works at a hotel in a snowy mountain pass in eastern France, benefited from a little-publicized amendment to the immigration law that last year grabbed headlines for proposing DNA tests for foreigners wanting to join family members. His case may signal a milder turn in Sarkozy’s law-and-order immigration policy.”There are people who need to hire and others who want to be hired,” said Violaine Carrere, who’s in charge of labor issues at GISTI, a Paris-based charity that provides legal support to immigrants. “The reasoning is to put them together and do it silently.”

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The Western Voices reader who sent us this article made the following comment: “Sarkozy changed to a tough position on illegals in France to defeat Le Pen. He now shows his true colors by supporting amnesty for illegals in France. The article mentions a DNA test be given to illegals; a DNA test should be given to Sarkozy.  He himself isn’t French.” In fact, Sarkozy is the offspring of a Hungarian Jewish father and a Greek Jewish mother.

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