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Macron seeks to tackle French immigration 'anxieties' with new law

Government  unveils the outlines of a new draft immigration law that will be debated formally in parliament in early 2023.

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French president Emmanuel Macron is set to make a second attempt at increasing expulsions of illegal immigrants after a series of scandals and under fierce pressure from his far-right opponents, reports Yahoo! News.

Macron's centrist government is set to unveil the outlines of a new draft immigration law on Tuesday that will be debated formally in parliament in early 2023.

It comes just four years after a 2018 law with similar objectives, passed during Macron's first term in office, which was also aimed at taking the heat out of an explosive political issue.

"It's about integrating better and expelling better," Macron's hardline interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, told France Inter radio on Tuesday of the new proposals.

"We want those people who work, not those who rob."

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