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Over the years the France has been coming into contact with more and more problems concerning the immigration policies and illegal immigration from North Africa. “(Sarkozy’s) obsession is to reduce the flow of immigrants coming legally from North Africa and Africa,” (Sign on San Diego ¶ 5) As we can see the French Immigration Problem is a serious issue and needs to be looked at by asking two questions, What is the French Immigration Problem? And how can we fix this problem? (End illegal immigration)

People have been traveling from all over Africa to France in search of a better life for them and their children. Although this better life includes breaking the law, and living in France as an illegal immigrant. This is bad for France as it over populates their country, the money that is earned from working in France is being sent back home to their families, hurting France’s economy, and taking jobs that could be given to the legal workers in France.

In 2007 France has taken a firmer approach to the immigration issue. Immigration Minister Brice Hortefeux had broadcasted a plan to offer financial inducements for legal Immigrants to move back to Africa. And Nicolas Sarkozy had established the Controversial Ministry of Immigration. (Choe ¶6). Another key item to help stop illegal immigration to France, is to stop legalizing illegal citizens within their boarders. This helps stop the illegal immigrants continuing to live in France if they were to get rejected for any particular reason. Because of these new strict policies the Weekly Standard had said that even French-Speaking African immigrants are increasingly choosing Spain over France (Choe ¶6). As you can see, these tough policies and laws are helping to control the amount of illegal immigrants migrating into France.

Its hard to give examples of how to end illegal immigration, and how we can say “If we do this, this, this, and this we can end illegal immigration!” But the fact is, we will never be able to end illegal immigration, and it will always be something that the world struggles with. Although, there are something’s we can do to help make illegal citizens, legal citizens. We have already started doing this by opening the boarders. This helps the flow of illegal aliens, and helps us keep track of who is coming in to the country. We can also make the legal process faster, make it easier to come over the boarder legally, and make it a felony for companies to hire illegal immigrants. Starting off with making the legal process faster, and making it easier to come over the boarder legally, these two things will help encourage Africans and other citizens of the world who turn to France for hope of a better life to earn a citizenship to France. This is not only a benefit for themselves but also a benefit for France. It gives them a sense of peace for knowing that they wont be shipped back home at any waking moment, and helps France as they would be tax paying citizens with a stable job. Lastly by making it a felony for any company to hire an illegal immigrant will help end illegal immigration as no one would find a job. It would scare the company owners into not hiring any illegal immigrants for fear of shutting their company down and going to prison, and people looking to migrate to France would think twice about it if they knew they weren’t going to get a job.

As we know France is a country that does struggle with illegal immigration from around the world, but working together and applying three small steps to solve illegal immigration and encourage people to get a citizenship.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/world/europe/22iht-spain.4295237.html?_r=2Main idea Details; Source InfoSpaniards and Latin gangs are clashing because the Spanish think that the Latin’s should not be in their country.

Young Spaniards lit fires and stoned the police in a Madrid suburb over the weekend after fighting with Latin American gang members they blame for beatings, murders and rapes in and around the capital.

Spanish youths rampaged through Alcorcón on Sunday looking for Latin Americans and shouting: "Latin Kings out! We're coming for them! We are going to kill them!"

The weekend brawls marked an escalation in tension between young Latin Americans and indigenous Spaniards who say immigrant gangs like the Latin Kings are responsible for a rise in violent crime.

Despite the highest rate of immigration in Europe, Spain has largely avoided tensions between immigrants and the native population.

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http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/sg-29jan2004.htmMain idea Details; Source InfoOne of the biggest tests for the enlarged European Union, in the years and decades to come, will be how it manages the challenge of immigration. If European societies rise to this challenge, immigration will enrich and strengthen them. If they fail to do so, the result may be declining living standards and

European societies need immigrants

 Without immigration, the population of the soon-to-be twenty-five Member States of the EU will drop, from about 450 million now to under 400 million in 2050.

We can be sure that people from other continents will go on wanting to come and live in Europe. In today’s unequal world, vast numbers of Asians and Africans lack the opportunities for self-improvement that most Europeans take for granted

All countries have the right to decide whether to admit voluntary migrants (as opposed to bona fide refugees, who have a right to protection under international law). But Europeans would be unwise to close their doors.

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social division.Managing migration is not only a matter of opening doors and joining hands internationally. It also requires each country to do more to integrate new arrivals. Immigrants must adjust to their new societies – and societies need to adjust too.

tremendous contribution that millions of immigrants have already made to modern European societies. Many have become leaders in government, science, academia, sports and the arts. Others are less famous but play an equally vital role. Without them, many health systems would be short-staffed, many parents would not have the home help they need to pursue careers, and many jobs that provide services and generate revenue would go unfilled. Immigrants are part of the solution, not part of the problem.

In this twenty-first century, migrants need Europe. But Europe also needs migrants. A closed Europe would be a meaner, poorer, weaker, older Europe. An open Europe will be a fairer, richer, stronger, younger Europe – provided Europe manages immigration well.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/02/18/the-incredible-shrinking-continent.html Main idea Details; Source Info

U.S. immigration policy isn't really

a disaster. In fact, Europe has

recently begun studying it

enviously—or was studying it

anyway.

Italy's interior minister, a member of the xenophobic Northern League, has sent armedcarabinieri to clear out camps of jobless migrants in Naples and other parts of the south. In Britain, Tory leader David Cameron recently promised that if his party wins upcoming elections he'll slash immigration by 75 percent—and that's on top of the visa quotas imposed last year by the current Labour government. Ahead of key regional elections in France, President Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a noisy debate about "French identity." Switzerland has outlawed minarets, and France, not to be outdone, is considering a ban on burqas.

Europe has ended up with 85 percent of all unskilled migrants to the developed countries but only 5 percent of the highly skilled. Compare that with the United States, which has

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honed its innovative edge by attracting 55 percent of the world's educated migrants.

Established immigrants paving the way for their peers, such trends tend to endure. "It therefore takes decades to turn immigration policy around,

 Millions of refugees were legally barred from working, which forced them into squalid welfare dependency.

The danger is that Europe's worsening hostility toward foreigners will halt or even reverse efforts to assimilate those who are already there, spawning a fast--growing, permanent underclass

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(http://www.civitas.org.uk/eufacts/FSEXR/EX1.htm)Main idea Details; Source Infothe EU has expanded its role in managing asylum and immigration

How would Common Immigration and Asylum Policies

EU countries are signed up to the UN Geneva Convention (1950), which commits them to protect refugees by ensuring that they may not be expelled or extradited to a state where there is a serious risk that they would be subjected to the death penalty, torture or other inhuman and degrading treatment.

EU members were historically allowed to set their own policy on migration.

Hague Programme 2004

Lisbon Treaty (2007)

In 2009, the EU proposed to set up a European Asylum Support Office (EASO) to regulate asylum applications

the EU has been receiving an average of 1.8 million immigrants annually

agreement makes clear that the EU should control how many immigrants come into the EU by developing partnerships with the migrants'

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work?

Arguments

countries of origin and by securing the EU's external borders to prevent illegal immigration

develop a policy that takes account of how many migrants any country can accept, the economic need for migrant labour and the capacity for immigrants to be integrated into the culture of their host country

ensure that new arrivals have rights comparable to the rights of existing citizens

For:

Under the Schengen Convention, EU member states co-operate to protect the EU's external borders. Common immigration policy is an important part of this process.

Co-operation can help EU member states spread the burden of immigration more equally.

Against:

Nation states, not the EU, should have the right to decide how many people come into their countries.

Some believe that Europe cannot cope with many more migrants and should be tightening its borders.

Summarize notes briefly (50 words or less)Brief history of asylum in the EU.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7314300.stm)Main idea Details; Source InfoNicolas Sarkozy has called on the UK to sign up to a common immigration policy with other EU nations.

Limited role

French President said a joint policy was the only way to stem migrant flows from Africa and central Europe.

But successive government have resisted calls to join the borderless Schengen area, which now covers 24 European countries, meaning

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'No common policy'

'Migratory waves'

the UK can only play a limited role in the EU border patrol force Frontex.

"It would be illusory to imagine we could have 27 different national immigration policies. France and Britain know this full well. "We have developed quite exemplary bilateral policy and I believe that it is of the essence that we have some kind of European immigration covenant or pact.

contain the migratory waves from central Europe and Africa

Summarize notes briefly (50 words or less)The UK and France have written a bilateral agreement to slow immigration into the European continent.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6228236.stmMain idea Details; Source InfoThousands of Africans try to make the journey to Europe each year as illegal migrants - risking people smugglers, deserts, sea crossings and the possibility of being sent home, all for the dream of a better life.

How Spain relates:

Security forces:

Immigrants in Europe.

Euro-zone and Sub-Saharan Africa

(charts and graphs, revisit.)

As the closest European country to the African continent, Spain is on the frontline for illegal migration

enclaves' authorities were forced to double the size of border fences around the coastal territories in 2005 when hundreds of migrants attempted to scale the defenses

in 2006 there was a closer focus on its islands - thousands headed for the Canary Islands in former African fishing boats, prompting an increase in joint "Frontex" patrol operations by Spain, the EU and African nations

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – African migration is marginal comparatively.

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About two-thirds of Africans in Europe are from north Africa (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia). An increasing number are travelling from Sub-Saharan Africa, mainly heading for the former colonial powers of France, Germany, Italy and the UK.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2012940.stmMain idea Details; Source InfoThe migrants flowing into Ceuta is unceasing.

Every day up to 40,000 people pass legally into this tiny splinter of Spain on North Africa's Mediterranean coast

The refugee center started out as a series of makeshift huts, but the flow of refugees has been so great that it has been upgraded and turned into a permanent facility

In La Plaza de Los Reyes, Ceuta's main square, immigration is too well-worn a topic to provoke much open discussion

Yolanda Gonzales, a journalist on the local newspaper, El Faro - there is resentment among Ceutans at the arrival of so many migrants.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Azna – prompted to draw up proposals to be presented at next month’s EU summit in Seville to tackle illegal immigration.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2002/europe_and_immigration/spain.stmMain idea Details; Source InfoSpanish government is considering discontinuing their policy on illegal immigrants.

It is calling its policy "hospitality with responsibility" - acceptance of those who have a right to be there; rejection of those who do not.

May 2002 opinion poll - 60% of Spaniards link immigrants to increased crime

Two thirds - believed Spaniards were becoming

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less tolerant of immigrants

Interior Minister, Mariano Rajoy - obligations  of learning to speak the language, for example.

Centre-right Prime Minister Jose-Maria Aznar wants more action against the smuggling of immigrants

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1504963.stmMain idea Details; Source InfoSpain and Morocco have come to an agreement about stopping, or slowing the flow of immigrants into Spanish territory.

Spain has complained to the Moroccan ambassador about the problem of illegal immigration

Spanish foreign minister has described the situation as unacceptable – called on Morocco to honor the agreement signed a month ago (control to mafia along the coastline.)

the numbers involved are nothing like as high as other European countries such as Italy, Germany or Britain, it is clear that Spain is finding it difficult to cope with all the illegal immigrants turning up on its shores.

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Part 2

Definition Context Prediction Your sentence or pic.Clandestine “or by

seeking the help of smugglers, often risking

secret The smuggling of the drugs was done in clandestine so nobody would know.

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death or injury in clandestine acts of desperation on boats, trucks, trains and planes.”

Stagnate “where jobs would go unfilled and services undelivered, as economies shrink and societies stagnate”

decline The plants were left in a dark closet with no water, they began to stagnate.

quotas “and that's on top of the visa quotas imposed last year by the current Labour government. “

Proportions The license quotas were sent off to the police in large amounts.

Impoverished  “just as the potential of the new world once attracted tens of millions of impoverished but enterprising Europeans.”

Third world like

A bag of gold in the middle of the street brought all the impoverished people of the village together.

xenophobic“Italy's interior minister, a member of the xenophobic Northern League, has sent armed carabinieri to clear out

prejudice Martin Luther king fought against the xenophobic attitudes towards black people.

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camps of jobless migrants in Naples and other parts of the south. In Britain, Tory leader David Cameron recently promised that if his party wins upcoming elections he'll slash immigration by 75 percent”

squalid “Millions of refugees were legally barred from working, which forced them into squalid welfare dependency.”

Dysfunctional The town was squalid from all the pollution

asylumIt would also drive more and more people to try and come in through the back door – by asking for political asylum (thus overloading a system designed to protect refugees who have fled in fear of

protection The Immigrants fleeing in fear hoped to find a place of asylum. That could provide safety.

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persecution)

Part 3Fixing Europe's Immigration ProblemEurope: Population and Migration in 2005

quixotic These are quixotic follies.

Harsh? The sunrise was unrealistic and having a picnic in front of it would’ve been quixotic.

follies These are quixotic follies.

Faults Drugs and crime are only two examples of follies of youth these days.

accession Outside the EU-25, 29.3 million people were living in the accession countries of Bulgaria and Romania.

Accessible They were used to not being accepted but there was great accession to this new association.

rampant Massive illegal immigration and native resentment are inevitable by-products of the European Union's broken immigration system, while xenophobia and rampant racism undermine its moral authority and put it in the camp of many of the tyrants it claims to

Strong or harsh The racist tone in his voice was unpleasant and unwelcome; it was rampant.

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despiseplight The

involvement of human trafficking rings with links to organized crime syndicates is another cause for alarm. In addition to the security implications, the horrendous plight of most illegal immigrants poses a challenge to European humanitarian values

Problem or issue

Unfortunately there is a plight of poverty that is difficult to approach.

saber Despite all the legal saber rattling, immigrants pack Italy's jails: Almost half of the jail population is comprised of foreigners either awaiting trial or serving their sentences

- The man was hit by a saber and needed medical help.

repatriating He wants all EU nations to sign a "European immigration pact" aimed at repatriating more illegal immigrants, particularly to African nations, and strengthening border controls.

Restricting The kids are eating too much candy it needs to be repatriated.

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Part 4Immigration, Black Sheep and Swiss Rage

France wants to reinforce Europe's immigration police

Spanish youth clash with immigrant gangs - Europe - International Herald Tribune

consensus “have polarized a country that prides itself on peaceful consensus in politics, neutrality in foreign policy and tolerance in human relations.”

An agreement The farmer and his neighbor came to a consensus with the sharing of land.

referendum As part of its platform, the SVP party has begun a campaign seeking the 100,000 signatures necessary to force a referendum to let judges deport foreigners after they serve prison sentences for serious crimes.

Vote There was a referendum for the public to decide which fruit they preferred.

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indigenous The weekend brawls marked an escalation in tension between young Latin Americans and indigenous Spaniards who say immigrant gangs like the Latin Kings are responsible for a rise in violent crime.

A person who is in rural situations

The French man was indigenous he had lived his entire life in the same village

fascists Interior Minister Pascal Couchepin, of the Liberal Democratic Party, has even suggested that the SVP’s worship of Christoph Blocher, the billionaire who is the party’s driving force and the current justice minister, is reminiscent of that of Italian fascists for Mussolini.

Fascism, anti-immigration

The fascists believed that immigrants were to blame for the increased crime rate in the country.

stigmatizes “It stigmatizes others and plays on the fear factor, and in that sense it’s dangerous.”

Triggers them triggers anger

The progressive tax system stigmatizes some people.

crass For Nelly Schneider, a 49-year-old secretary, the party’s approach is “a little bit crass,” but appealing nevertheless.

ridiculous Soccer today has become a little bit crass; the players should become actors instead considering how often they dive.

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arduous  It has perhaps the longest and most arduous process to become a citizen in all of Europe: candidates typically must wait 12 years before being considered.

difficult The studying process before exams is time-consuming and arduous.