http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.293021578&par=0 FRANCE: IMMIGRATION BILL DIVIDES NATION Paris, 2 May (AKI) - French lawmakers were due on Tuesday to begin debating interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy's controversial blueprint for what he has termed "selected immigration" that aims to attract skilled newcomers while keeping poorer ones and their families out. The bill has drawn criticism from left-wing parties and religious leaders and has also prompted France's extreme right wing to step up its stridently anti-immigrant line. Sarkozy - himself the son of a Hungarian immigrant - claims the bill is designed to attract a new generation of skilled workers who would embrace French values and traditions, thus easing the tense race relations that contributed to over three weeks of urban riots last October-November, by youths of mostly North African immigrant origins. Youth unemployment in France's high-rise suburbs tops 50 percent. The bill provides for a three-year "skills and talents" residence permit to attract skilled and qualified workers, as well as high-flying foreign students. But the blueprint makes it harder for unskilled and poor immigrants to enter Frence, harder for resident immigrants to bring family members to the country, and obliges newcomers to take French and civics lessons. Sarkozy claims the bill would allow France to chose its immigants in the way other industrialised countries do, but critics say it will create a two-tier system of "good" and "bad" immigrants, discriminate against the poor and undermine France's traditional open door policy. Sarkozy's own father might have failed to enter France had his son's proposed rules been in force when he fled Communist-controlled Hungary in the late 1940s, the bill's opponents note. On Monday, more than 5,000 people marched through Paris to protest the bill. On the same day, far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen announced he would run against Sarkozy in France's 2007 campaign. Sarkozy's tougher line on immigration showed Le Pen's anti-immigrant views are gaining ground, the National Front president told his supporters. Le Pen obtained 16.86 percent of the votes in the first round of voting in France's 2002 presidential elections: the highest share of any candidate after presidential incumbent, Jacques Chirac, who soundly defeated Le Pen in the run-off, taking 82 percent of the vote.
For many years the European critisized USA for breaching human right against new poor immigrants. They would use big words such as "modern slavery" and so on. They would pride themselves for treating foreigns right - ie changing them to a bunch of lazy benefit claimers. - Now even God given right to work is breached in european countries. Good to see end of hypocrisy. .
I wouldn't say it is hard because if it was there was no need for European governments to prevent irregular immigrants from getting a job. But I share your doubt about job being God given right because if it was, he would defend it himself. .