France's Plan for Illegal Immigration: Pay 'Em To Go Home

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As demonstrations intensify and legislation stalls in the U.S. over the status of illegal immigrants, France has been taking another tack. It's offering cash payments -- the equivalent of about $2,400 per adult and $600 per child -- to illegals who agree to return to their native countries. The government began to offer the payments last September but so far has found fewer than 200 takers. Now, law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is urging officials to cut the program's red tape to make participation easier, according to the French daily Le Figaro, which obtained a copy of an Interior Ministry memo sent to local officials. But critics say the payments are too low to entice many of France's estimated 400,000 illegals to say adieu.

Meanwhile, France is getting tougher on those who don't leave voluntarily. Since 2002, the number of illegals expelled annually from the country has doubled, to 20,000 last year. At the same time, Sarkozy is spearheading legislation to make it easier for well-educated, highly skilled immigrants to enter the country. Sarkozy, the front-runner in the 2007 French presidential race, is himself the son of an immigrant. His father fled communist Hungary in 1949 and was granted refugee status in France.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/conte...17/c3981003.htm

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Every little bit helps.

[almaty 19]

if we did it here..they be back by suppertime...

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

if we did it here..they be back by suppertime...

Use the money to build a fence then... deal

[peejay 327]

if we did it here..they be back by suppertime...

Sad, but oh so true.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

if we did it here..they be back by suppertime...

Use the money to build a fence then... deal

We'll need illegals to build the damn thing

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

if we did it here..they be back by suppertime...

Use the money to build a fence then... deal

We'll need illegals to build the damn thing

The way things are going, you may just find enough American volunteers to do the job for free...

[desert_fox 32]

Spain is pretty much shutting down illegal immigration also. Many overstayers from South America, and boat people trying every day to cross from Western Africa into the Canary Islands.

They now round em up and head em out.

They dont have repatriation treaties with many African nations and these ppl cannot be returned, so they set them free after 40 days in detention, but wont give them any kind of working permit....sounds familiar huh?\

[peejay 327]

Spain is pretty much shutting down illegal immigration also. Many overstayers from South America, and boat people trying every day to cross from Western Africa into the Canary Islands.

They now round em up and head em out.

They dont have repatriation treaties with many African nations and these ppl cannot be returned, so they set them free after 40 days in detention, but wont give them any kind of working permit....sounds familiar huh?\

I live in Texas, but work in Louisiana and saw an interesting story there on local TV. Some of the locals were b*tching about the Central Americans flooding into New Orleans to do cleanup work. So ICE made a sweep and many were arrested, but were given summons to appear in immigration court later for a deportation hearings since there are not enough detention beds. So they were promptly released back on the streets to work illegally again. How many do you think will show up in court for certain deportation?