French Nationality Dept: The conservative government's amendment was passed 75-57 with one abstention in a chamber that was more than half empty. It would strip citizenship from people naturalized less than 10 years ago if they're convicted of murdering police or other authorities, according to The Star. However, rival leftist lawmakers contended he was pandering to the far-right National Front party to pump up his lagging poll ratings before the 2012 presidential elections and pARIS French legislators adopted Thursday an amendment to a bill toughening immigration law that would strip naturalized citizens of their nationality if they are convicted of murdering a police officer a measure critics say creates a category of second-class French. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who introduced the idea in a speech in July, says French nationality "should be earned." As
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