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7/25/06

IOL: France will give residency to 6 000 illegals - by Francois Murphy


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France will give residency to 6 000 illegals - by Francois Murphy

Paris - France will grant residency permits to roughly 6 000 illegal immigrants but expel more than twice as many under controversial new immigration rules, its interior minister said on Monday.

Nicolas Sarkozy, conservative front-runner for next year's presidential election, tightened residency rules after poor suburbs, many of them home to descendants of immigrants, erupted last year in a wave of rioting that shocked France.

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