France’s government and conservative lawmakers find a compromise on immigration bill

Parliament members from French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist majority and a conservative party have found agreement on a divisive immigration bill that is intended to strengthen France's ability to deport foreigners considered undesirable, the country's interior minister said Tuesday. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who championed the bill, praised “an important text which will protect the French" but also allow 7,000 to 10,000 undocumented migrant workers a year to get residency permits and fill jobs in sectors that have difficulty hiring. "We will at last be able to expel foreign offenders of our territory but also integrate all those who work in our restaurants, in the agriculture sector,” Darmanin said.