Posted on 09/14/2007 1:53:53 AM PDT by knighthawk
Civil liberties groups in France have reacted furiously over government plans to introduce DNA testing for the families of immigrants, to prove their demands for visas are genuine. The tests would not be compulsory, but there are fears that applicants who do not take them would have their cases rejected. The proposal has been put forward by Thierry Mariani, an MP of the governing UMP party and a confidant of President Nicolas Sarkozy. They envisage possible DNA tests for applications for visas of more than three months; where there was "serious doubt" birth or marriage certificates were genuine, immigration officials could "propose" to applicants that they take, at their own expense, a test to prove a biological link with other family members.
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I don’t see the problem here. Smoke and mirrors.
Good idea.
Why on earth would they be furious?? I think it’s a fabulous idea!
How about removing the shackles to everyone’s God-given freedoms instead? (like the right to self-defense to defend life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness). Then you wouldn’t need government sticking its nose into everyone’s genetics. Oh I’m sorry, I forgot that DNA testing is less threatening to the French lords.
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