Dealing with immigration French Style

Today most of France is in shock at the footage of French police dragging pregnant women and babies away in the latest action against illegal immigrants. With most of France on holiday the government of Sarkozy has swung into action. It makes the friendly English police look like pussy cats!

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Don't take part in a demonstration if you're pregnant and don't take your babies with you.

retires to bunker and dons tin hat.

Don't take part in a demonstration if you're pregnant and don't take your babies with you.

 

retires to bunker and dons tin hat.

Indeed - they should be left with a Nanny

Thought it was a bit harsh when they were dragging a woman along on her back when she had a baby strapped to it! You'd have thought even the most heavy handed police oficer would have thought to remove the baby first, then drag her off!

You might remember that the French, the Italians et al are all subject to The Human Rights Act which the UK also, stupidly IMO, signed up to. So how come the French don't muck about as is shown above, the Italians also chucked a load of thieving, trouble making Rumanians out last year and all we do is stand there wringing our hands and saying "but we have to comply with the law, we must give them houses and benefits and cars and free mobile phones etc etc etc". If the French and Italians are going to ignore the law (as they always do) when it suits them, why are we the only suckers that ever comply with anything that comes out of Strasbourg ? I sometimes think we should be more like the French (i.e. ungovernable) at times, then we wouldn't get walked over by the political so-called elite of this country.

By the way, in case you think I'm a heartless b'stard, I do think that genuine refugees, victims of war or natural disasters for example, should be taken care of. After all, if it wasn't for Idi Amin we probably wouldn't have so many curry houses over here now and I do love a chicken pathia.

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that is not the sort of place to take a frikkin baby...

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It is funny, until you realise they're being arrested and carted off straight to Calais.

These are women and children who have been flung out of accommodation and left on the streets. Where the hell are they supposed to take them? There is a difference removing protesters making trouble and those left defenseless on the pavements. The thing is that the authorities move in against easy targets like women and children whilst leaving drug dealers, thugs and rioting males alone to burn and wreak whole areas. Do we see cars, buildings being burnt everynight in the UK? Maybe 20 or 30 years ago but this is something happening in the here and now and every day, every night for the past 5 years.

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Art - open door immigration will do that it seems

Surely no one is so naive as to believe that this is simply to do with immigration, it has become painfully obvious in France that they have recently been looking to 'go after' their North African population. Seeing a they used to treat their colonies worse than we did they should have a duty of care to provide support for their former colonies to prevent so many people wanting to emigrate, if the French insist that immigration is the real issue that is.

One thing I have to say seeing the North African issue has been mentioned, is that the Sarkozy government are finally rectifying one huge post colonial issue. Thousands of North African and men from former French colonies fought for Franbce. Yet, till recently weren't intitled to pensions despite living in France. 3 years ago, I met a sprightly looking Algerian of 89 years lining up looking for handouts and he told me he'd been in the French Army for 15 years and received nothing. At the time I was unaware but this has been a huge issue. It's taken all these years but finally action to put this right is being taken. One wonders just how many have died in all those years and will never be compensated. Our colonial past still has many unresolved issues whether we be British, French or Portugese or Dutch.

btw the individual are not illegal immigrants - they are legally entitled to be there - just that they were squatting in a housing complex that's renown for gang violence and drugs and due to be demolished by the government.

Tear gas would've been easier

Tear gas would've been easier

Not so sure even the brutal French security would resort to tear gas in the obvious presence of babies and pregnant women. On the other hand, polls conducted this week throughout France are showing overwhelming support for Sarkozy's new heavy handed approach to immigration.

The following is a translation of one article where the opinions may be of interest considering the high support for these measures by socialist voters.

According to surveys published this Thursday, (representative of the French population of more than 18 years), the French, of socialist tendencies, would very largely support the measures announced by the president of the Republic and his government.

The most popular measures: the control of the delinquents by electronic bracelet for several years after they purged their sentences is approved by 89% of the questioned people.

Measures supported likewise also on the left

The withdrawal of nationality for the French nationals of foreign origin, culprits of incentive to disturbance of public order or polygamy is also largely voted by the electorate. 80% of the French probed there are favorable. More surprising: 62% of socialist voters approve this idea. The half of these same socialist voters are favorable to the withdrawal of nationality for the guilty delinquents of foreign origin for attack on the life of a gendarme or a police officer (70% of the people questioned there are favorable).

79% of the questioned people are favorable to the dismantling of the illegal camping of Romanians and gypsies. And 67% are said favorable to the installation of 60.000 cameras of vidéo surveillance from here to 2012.

Measure the least appreciated, the judgment at two years of prison for the parents of juvenile delinquents, in the event of non-observance by the latter of the injunctions of justice. 45% of the people questioned there are opposed.

“A strong demand of safety” “One cannot deny that the request for safety is strong among all French, and not only at those which vote for Le Pen”.

I think the UK Government could learn a lot from France. They certainly seem to stick up for themselves, and the 'french people's' rights more than we do over here. Again, I blame the EEC. Whatever we're told to do, we do it. The French don't live so strictly to their policies.