NYT Editors Strange Upset Over French Immigration Fraud Measure

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NYT Editors Strange Upset Over French Immigration Fraud Measure

"Immigration issues bring out the worst instincts in politicians who should know better. Congress showed that earlier this year. Now it is the turn of France’s Parliament. It is moving toward final approval of an ugly new law that would introduce DNA testing as a potential basis for excluding prospective immigrants hoping to reunify with family members already living in France. DNA testing can be a useful tool in establishing criminal guilt or innocence. But it has no rightful place in immigration law. Modern French families, like modern American families, are constituted on many bases besides bloodlines and genetics. This is something most French politicians and voters should be aware of," says the New York Times in an editorial.


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No wonder newspapers are losing circulation. The public wants one thing, and they're right; the newspapers want another, and they're wrong, and the latter can't figure out maybe they shouldn't treat their readers with contempt.