It Will Lead to Greater Human Suffering: France, EU Impose Harsh New Restrictions on Migrants

France’s health minister tendered his resignation Wednesday to protest an anti-immigrant bill backed by President Emmanuel Macron and approved by a wide margin in the French Parliament. The bill makes it far easier for France to expel asylum seekers, sets strict immigration quotas, makes it harder for children of immigrants to become French citizens and delays immigrants’ access to welfare benefits by several years. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called the amended bill an “ideological victory” for her party.