Sarkozy Wants to Expel 125K "Immigrants" by End of the Year...

Replace "immigrants" with "Muslims" and you have a more accurate picture. Good start for Sarkozy...

France sets purge quotas for illegal immigrants

PARIS — France has set tough new quotas for the number of undocumented immigrants authorities should arrest and expel each month, the new immigration minister said.

Brice Hortefeux, who heads the newly created Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Co-Development, said a monthly quota would also be set for ferreting out those employed illegally.

In a meeting with security officials Monday, Hortefeux reiterated President Nicolas Sarkozy's goal of 25,000 expulsions by the end of 2007, and set a year-end goal of 125,000 arrests for illegal entry or illegal residence, a ministry statement said

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