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Over 10,000 pro-immigrant protesters marched through Paris on Saturday to demonstrate against a proposed immigration bill that would effectively allow border officials to choose who will be admitted into the country. Specifically, the bill creates...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Uganda's second key witness in the treason case against opposition leader Kizza Besigye has admitted to perjury under cross-examination by Besigye's lawyers. Migadde Ssemakula, who claims he is a lieutenant...

Projet de loi relatif à l'immigration et à l'intégration . Excerpt from the "Exposé des motifs", by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy:L'immigration demeure aujourd'hui sans rapport avec les capacités d'accueil de la...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin expressed support Tuesday for a proposed immigration law , but indicated that its language could be amended after meeting over the weekend with leaders of the...

French union leaders and student groups hinted Monday that they might be willing to re-enter negotiations with the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin a day after the law establishing the so-called First Employment Contract (CPE) [text, JURIST...

France's Interior Minister and anticipated 2007 French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a compromise over a new youth labor law - the so-called First Employment Contract (contrat première embauche, CPE)...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin Thursday presented a draft bill to the French cabinet introducing the concept of selective immigration . Under the proposed bill, immigration by highly skilled...

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday announced proposed new immigration laws that would enable the government to be more selective in allowing newcomers into the country and...

French immigration officials have deported a man from Mali involved in the riots that overtook Parisian suburbs and spread across the country last fall, the first of seven foreigners so far found guilty in connection with the...

Several French human rights groups led by the French League for Human Rights declared a proposed French immigration bill racist and a "blatant violation of immigrants' rights" in a joint statement issued Saturday. The proposed...