Deportees stranded far from home


Sacko driving his motorbike on a street in Bamako, Mali. — Reuters

IN December, Moussa Sacko spent his birthday in Mali scrolling through messages from friends with whom he celebrated a year earlier on Paris’ Champs-Elysees. He hasn’t seen any of them since being deported from France in July.

Like Sacko, hundreds of foreign nationals previously protected because they grew up in France now face expulsion under legislation introduced last year.

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