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Illegal immigrants to be DNA tested under new crackdown in France


Immigration minister Eric Besson said the DNA tests would  establish which 
foreigners were claiming visas by making up fictious family  ties
France's hard-line new immigration minister is set to implement legislation  
that would allow DNA testing of new arrivals. 
Eric Besson, who was appointed this month, has said the tests would establish 
 which foreigners were claiming visas by making up fictious family ties with  
those already settled in the country. 
Civil liberties groups have reacted furiously to the controversial scheme,  
which was approved by the French parliament 15 months ago but does not come 
into  effect until the appropriate minister has signed the legislation. 
Until now that move had been delayed by protests. 
But Mr Besson has now said he wanted to give it the ‘green light’, 
confirming  that a ministerial meeting would be held on the subject ‘in a few days’. 
He added: ‘If the decree is accepted, I will scrupulously respect all  
individual liberties. It’s not my obsession.' 
The tests will be for applications for visas of more than three months when  
there are doubts about an immigrant's birth or marriage certificates. 
The move would allow officials to 'propose' to applicants that they take a  
test at their own expense to prove a biological link with other family  
members. 
A recent report said there was often doubt over the authenticity of papers in 
 family applications for visas. 
It claimed that in African countries such as Senegal, Ivory Coast and Togo up 
 to 80 per cent of birth and marriage certificates were forged. 
Government statistics show there are 23,000 immigration cases a year where  
visa applications involve children, meaning DNA tests would become  widespread. 

 
The issue of migrants is a vexed one for many European  countries who will be 
watching the announcement by France's immigration minister  with great 
interest. These men are at a holding centre on the Mediterranean  island of 
Lampedusa 
But immigrant welfare groups said the plan was unacceptable. 
Daniele Lochak, a former president of GISTI, a group providing information  
and support for immigrants, said: ‘It's obvious that applicants who refuse  DNA 
 tests will have every chance of having their visas refused.’ 
The cost of up to £350 for a test is also likely to be beyond the reach of  
many immigrant families. 
France has strict controls on DNA testing. Its civil code says studies of a  
person's genetic characteristics can only be for medical or scientific 
research,  meaning magistrates will have to authorise the new immigrant tests. 
Outgoing immigration minister Brice Hortefeux recently announced that France  
deported 30,000 illegal migrants in 2008 - a record number. 
It was a rise of more than 25 per cent on the number expelled the previous  
year. 





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