Posted on 04/22/2018 9:18:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
French lawmakers were set to vote Sunday on a controversial immigration law that has exposed unprecedented divisions in President Emmanuel Macron’s young centrist party.
At least one MP, Jean-Michel Clement, is planning to vote against the law — at a cost of being kicked out of Macron’s En Marche (Republic On The Move) party — while several others said they would abstain.
The lower-house national assembly was supposed to vote on the bill Friday, but the fractious debate stretched into the weekend due to more than 1,000 amendments proposed by MPs.
More than 200 of the changes were suggested by En Marche members as Macron’s own MPs openly challenged his plans to double the maximum time migrants can be held in detention to 90 days.
The government defends the bill as balanced, but it has attracted criticism both from right-wingers who say it is too soft and left-wingers who have blasted it as repressive.
Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said it aims for “better controlled” immigration, halving the waiting time for asylum applications to six months while also making it easier to deport those turned down as “economic” migrants. Accepted refugees will be given more help to integrate, such as better access to work and French lessons. …
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Sounds like a total win for the Left
Whatever. France is long gone
Way too late. They need to be discussing — and doing — repatriation of the moslems. Not immigration thereof
Comically, the bill passed by a two-thirds margin.
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