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Rod says:

What a difference an election makes – from the song of a similar title!

RagingBullmoose says:

Reminds me of something my father told me once about the French, back before the build up to the Gulf War:

“The French are kinda funny this way. They always hem and haw and drag their feet, but they always end up lacing up their spikes and getting in the game.”

I thought this concept dead and burried ever since Chiraq and his cliq vehemently opposed the US/UK/Ausie mission to “take out the trash”.

Now it looks like the French just might break out their Adidas’s after all.

pat_s says:

Whoa! These guys are really getting tough. France plans DNA tests to fight illegal immigration

A French government proposal to DNA test would-be immigrant families, as well as make them prove they have financial backing and speak French, is to be debated in parliament. The new measures are contained in a bill that is part of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. Civil liberties groups claim such legislation would be inhuman and racist.
Concerning DNA testing, even some geneticists agree. “DNA tests on families would be immoral because in French families, for a long time, we have said family is not just about biology and the transmission of genes,” said genetics expert Professor Axel Kahn.

But the government says it wants to ensure that when potential immigrants apply to join their families in France, they are really family and will be well provided for.

“We know that there is abuse of the system,” said Professor Bernard Debré of the Cochin Hospital in Paris. “We know children who have nothing to do with a family come in this way, and DNA testing isn’t dangerous.”

A dozen other EU countries already request DNA tests from immigrants. But they are expensive and it is the potential immigrant who has to pay.

SKMA says:

Hmmm…make immigrants prove they speak the language?! What a concept. Maybe we could learn something from the French after all…