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Originally posted by johnny:
Like i said, they all have double nationalities, which means that their country of origin cannot refuse to take them in. If France wants to eject a few hundred Algerians, who all have both French and Algerian passports, they can simply send them back to Algeria, even when they are born in France. It's simple, if you don't behave to normal French standards, you don't deserve to live in France, and you have to go. I don't see anything wrong in reasoning like that.
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But do they have two passports? Just because you were born in a country different to that of your parents doesn't mean you are automatically granted dual nationality. The deal is slightly different for each country. I have a british mum and an american dad. I was born in Britain so that's the passport I automatically got. I would have had to go hrough a long and arduous process in order to get dual nationality. We're talking about having to hire solicitors to decipher the forms the american embasy sent me, and flying my dad over from the states as it was a requiremnt that both parents be present. In the end we didn't have the money, and since dual nationality must be claimed by the time you are 18, I will never now have citizenship in the countries I am entitled too. There were legal problems too, such as in wartime someone with dual nationality could technically be called up by both countries and then imprisoned by whoever they did not fight for. Needless to say, in the current climate with america's foreign policy I was not thrilled at this prospect.
Anyway, I'm not sure a lot of these rioters will have anything other than a french passport. The police over here sure as hell couldn't send me 'back' to america if I'd been causing them some trouble.