Illegal Immigrant Inconvenient Truth Shows Too Few Dispensable

Since arriving in France six years ago from Mali, Youba Soumbounou has sorted trash at factories and warehouses near Paris. He got his job using fake papers and has been told five times by police to leave the country.

His employer, which he asked not to be identified, didn’t fire him. Instead, it has joined companies such as Veolia Environnement SA and Derichebourg SA in seeking legal residency for laborers they need for dirty and dangerous tasks.