re: #160 Dark_Falcon

Actually, the US also allows for the revocation of naturalized citizenship. It’s not a separate class so much as a statement that those allowed to stay can still be sent back if they commit certain types of crime. These crimes should be limited to severe offenses, but trying to kill a police officer surely qualifies.

Well, I’m agin’ it. It really does create two classes of citizenship. One type of person faces one type of sentence for the same crime, another type of person faces another type of sentence. That’s separate classes of people under the law.

Another thing is, deportation for serious crimes might or might not be harsher than punishing them locally: “You mean I can kill a cop and the worst thing that happens to me is I get a free plane ticket to go live with my uncle in the UAE? Great!”

It basically amounts to revoking the right of the state to determine the actual punishment of an offender. The state you send them to might or might not apply a punishment that your country would find proper, whether what happens to them is too harsh or not harsh enough.

It’s also a bit odd that we’re talking about France, where other countries often find it difficult to extradite someone from for crimes committed elsewhere. Between those two policies, there’s something of a double standard going on.