The French parliament yesterday passed a tough new immigration law that restricts foreigners' rights to marry or bring their families to France and gives police extra power to carry out expulsions, Reuter reports from Paris.
The law, the subject of furious debate and attacks by liberal lawyers and civil rights groups, sailed through the conservative-dominated National Assembly with a show of hands.
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