In his rented flat in the Paris suburbs of Seine-St-Denis, Bakary Camara leafs through pages of character references from friends and colleagues. The praise is fulsome, but so far to no avail. Despite his job with a local roofing company, the 29-year-old has been given formal notice to leave the country and risks being sent back to Mali. He is not alone. President Nicolas Sarkozy's government has pledged to deport 25,000 illegal immigrants each year, in spite of a plea from employers who say the clampdown is also penalising French businesses. Some firms complain they are being forced to sack foreign workers they cannot replace, and they resent being forced to "play the police" in the battle against illegal immigration. Now some companies have also been hit by a strike.
In his rented flat in the Paris suburbs of Seine-St-Denis, Bakary Camara leafs through pages of character references from friends and colleagues.
The praise is fulsome, but so far to no avail. Despite his job with a local roofing company, the 29-year-old has been given formal notice to leave the country and risks being sent back to Mali.
He is not alone.
President Nicolas Sarkozy's government has pledged to deport 25,000 illegal immigrants each year, in spite of a plea from employers who say the clampdown is also penalising French businesses.
Some firms complain they are being forced to sack foreign workers they cannot replace, and they resent being forced to "play the police" in the battle against illegal immigration.
Now some companies have also been hit by a strike.
Bringing solace to the voters who clinched Sarkozy's victory.
If this policy is wrong, then better to change the law and give all these illegal immigrant some kind of temporary legal residency or amnesty. But Sarkozy cannot be blamed for enforcing the law, as that is his prerogative, unfortunate though that may be. A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
The logical result of incorporating Le Pen's policy proposals in his campaign and ideas. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
