Immigration in the US is one confusing subject. Both sides of this debtate scream injustice and invoke every imaginable rhetoric.
Notebook believes France offer a glimpse into this debate’s future. Should there be a crack down–exactly what the Republican’s social conservatives want–could this country turn into a flavor of France? IHT reports the current situation there:
Since that April morning, Alek has gotten used to hiding – parents and teachers at his Lyon school have taken turns concealing him and his brother David, 7, illegal immigrants from Azerbaijan, to keep them in the country and in school.
“Who would have imagined that in France in 2006, we are finding ourselves hiding children from the police?” said Christine Pitiot, a mother of two, as she waited for the two boys outside school one recent afternoon to take them to their latest “safe house.”
Hiding schoolchildren from the police is the newest chapter in France’s tormented immigration debate, following fatal fires in immigrant squats last summer, burning cars in rioting suburbs last fall and clashes between immigrant youths and the police on Paris streets this spring.
This would be an ugly and tragic phase should the US government resorts to this crackdown.
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France and the US’s immigration future
Immigration in the US is one confusing subject. Both sides of this debtate scream injustice and invoke every imaginable rhetoric.
Notebook believes France offer a glimpse into this debate’s future. Should there be a crack down–exactly what the Republican’s social conservatives want–could this country turn into a flavor of France? IHT reports the current situation there:
Since that April morning, Alek has gotten used to hiding – parents and teachers at his Lyon school have taken turns concealing him and his brother David, 7, illegal immigrants from Azerbaijan, to keep them in the country and in school.
“Who would have imagined that in France in 2006, we are finding ourselves hiding children from the police?” said Christine Pitiot, a mother of two, as she waited for the two boys outside school one recent afternoon to take them to their latest “safe house.”
Hiding schoolchildren from the police is the newest chapter in France’s tormented immigration debate, following fatal fires in immigrant squats last summer, burning cars in rioting suburbs last fall and clashes between immigrant youths and the police on Paris streets this spring.
This would be an ugly and tragic phase should the US government resorts to this crackdown.