PARIS (AP) — A few months ago, Abou Sangare was an anonymous, 23-year-old Guinean immigrant lacking permanent legal status in northern France and, like thousands of others, fighting deportation. It is vowing to make it harder for immigrants lacking permanent legal status to stay and easier for France to expel them. Sangare plays a young asylum-seeker who works as a Paris delivery man, weaving his bicycle through traffic in the City of Light. Like the character he portrays, Sangare is hoping to persuade French officials to grant him residency and abandon their efforts to force him to leave. He wants more immigrants lacking permanent legal status to be held in detention centers and for longer periods, and is leaning on regional administrators to get tough.

Source: Libya Today October 10, 2024 10:22 UTC