France to reduce visas for North Africans in migration spat

Independent Co UK

By AP New Wire – September 28, 2021

France will reduce the number of visas issued to people in North Africa because governments there are refusing to take back migrants expelled from France.

The move announced Tuesday comes amid pressure from far-right politicians on centrist President Emmanuel Macron to implement tougher immigration rules and creates new tensions between France and its North African neighbors. Morocco s foreign minister slammed the decision as “unjustified.”

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